Schreiner

[ shrahy-ner ]

noun

1. Olive Ralph Iron, c1862–1920, English author and feminist.

Schreiner

/ ˈʃraɪnə /

noun

1. SchreinerOlive (Emilie Albertina)18551920FSouth AfricanWRITING: novelistPOLITICS: feminist writer Olive ( Emilie Albertina ). 1855–1920, South African novelist and feminist writer, whose works include the autobiographical The Story of an African Farm (1883) and Women and Labour (1911)

Example Sentences

The 80-bed hospital plans to cut some services, Schreiner said.

From Washington Post

Schreiner was born in 1890 and grew up in the Cape Colony with its liberal tradition and nonracial voting laws.

From Ozy

Only Schreiner refused to go along with the National Party’s political manipulations, writing a dissenting judgment.

From Ozy

The framers of the constitution of South Africa, Schreiner argued, had not intended that the government could, by a simple majority, change the structure of the Senate in order to give themselves a two-thirds majority.

From Ozy

As legal scholar Ellison Kahn put it in 1980, Schreiner was “the greatest Chief Justice South Africa never had.”

From Ozy

He added that he had extremely limited contact with Bauer, Schreiner, and his daughter.

From The Daily Beast

There was Mr Schreiner, the Premier, almost boyish with plump, smooth cheeks and a dark moustache.

From Project Gutenberg

Its only writer is Mrs. Cornwright-Schreiner—the daughter of a German.

From Project Gutenberg

Olive Schreiner herself is the first to admit that there are exceptions.

From Project Gutenberg

The vigor and freshness and inspiration of the air and the sunwell, it was all just as Olive Schreiner had made it in her books.

From Project Gutenberg

After in vain trying to enlist Mr. Schreiner as a recruit, Mr. Reitz asked him to state the reason of his refusal.

From Project Gutenberg