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The common denotative meanings of slut are 'sexually promiscuous woman', [1] or 'immoral or dissolute woman; prostitute'. [2] These definitions identify a slut as a woman of low character—a person who lacks the ability or chooses not to exercise a power of discernment to order her affairs.
Mills admits he killed all of Shepard's lovers, as well as her parents and her mother's lovers, because he considered it his mission to prevent her growing up to be a dissolute woman like her mother. As her father's partner, Mills had felt the responsibility to inform him that his wife was a nymphomaniac, which drove him insane.
Lady Touchwood, a violent and dissolute woman, is in love with Mellefont, but as he rejects her advances, determines to prevent the match and ruin him in Lord Touchwood's esteem. In this design she finds a confederate in Maskwell, the Double Dealer, who has been her lover, pretends to be Mellefont's friend, and aspires to cheat him of Cynthia ...
It still had many dissolute women and gambling men, but gradually murder became a lost art. …” Riverfront redevelopment was decades in the making “Slowly Bucktown disappeared,” the WPA ...
[2] [20] [9] The legal scholar Christopher Hamerton considers that there were some who saw Whipping Tom as a moral crusader, providing a form of social justice against dissolute women. [21] The historian and diarist Narcissus Luttrell reported that there were two assailants imprisoned for the offences; one was a haberdasher from Holborn. [15]
On market day, in late October, Euclide goes to buy vegetables to store in his root cellar. A description is given of citizens growing lettuce and root vegetables in cold frames in their cellars during the long winter. He goes to the church to say a prayer and notices Jacques, the son of a dissolute woman, also saying his prayers.
Women may not always get the historical credit their male counterparts do, but as these women show, they were always there doing the work. With their fierce determination and refusal to back down, all of these 12 women were not just ahead of their own times, but responsible for shaping ours.
A scary, sobering look at fatal domestic violence in the United States