FEMALE-MASTIX NOUN a person who writes in denunciation of women ...a1631 obs. ETYMOLOGY from female (n.) + -mastix (combining form - forming nouns designating a person violently hostile to an idea, institution, etc.) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE a1631 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...The monstrous fashions, how, were, alive, to eate Deare reputation. Would to God she were But halfe so loath to act vice, as to heare My milde reproofe. Liv’d Mantuan now againe, That fœmall Mastix, to limme with his penne This she Chymera, that hath eyes of fire, Burning with anger, anger feeds desire, Tongued like the night-crow, whose ill boding cries Give out for nothing but new injuries, Her breath like to the juice in Tenarus..." From: Elegies - John Donne Julia
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