inner woman
Britishnoun
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a woman's mind, soul, or nature
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humorous the stomach or appetite
Example Sentences
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It puzzled me then, but I know now, that there was undoubtedly some sudden soul shock, some prophetic apprehension, which my inner woman trembled before, and which my physical woman could only interpret by tears.
From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
At least such reticence to self is often sincerely and plausibly asserted by the very inner woman.
From The Seeker by Wilson, Harry Leon
There was something in the very sounds of such words which was appalling to the inner woman.
From Orley Farm by Trollope, Anthony
Yet it was the revealing of the inner woman, rather than the withering of the exterior, which betrayed her years.
From An Ambitious Man by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
All that splendid faith, which is exactly to the inner woman what courage is to the physical woman, had slipped away from me.
From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
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