griselda

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noun

A meek and patient woman.

πŸ’¬ Usage Examples

β€œQuite evidently she is not a Griselda, but possessed with a shocking desire to exculpate herself and her friends.” Harriet Beecher Stowe; Lady Byron Vindicated; Boston, Fields, Osgood, & Co.; 1870.
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