Termagant Definition

tûrmə-gənt
noun
A boisterous, quarrelsome, scolding woman; shrew.
Webster's New World
Macaulay.
The slave of an imperious and reckless termagant.
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An imaginary deity believed by medieval Christians to be worshiped by Muslims and represented in morality plays as a boisterous, overbearing figure.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
adjective
Of the nature of a termagant; quarrelsome; scolding.
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pronoun

(archaic) An imaginary deity with a violent temperament who featured in medieval mystery plays, represented as being worshiped by Muslims.

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Other Word Forms of Termagant

Noun

Singular:
termagant
Plural:
termagants

Origin of Termagant

  • From Middle English Termagaunt imaginary Muslim deity portrayed as a violent and overbearing character in medieval mystery plays alteration of Tervagant from Old French

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old French Tervagant, from Italian Trivagante, interpreted as being from Latin tri- + vagari (“wander").

    From Wiktionary

  • From Termagant.

    From Wiktionary

Termagant Sentence Examples

  • In incidental allusions he lets us know that he had been engaged in trade, that his wife was a termagant, and that his children were ill brought up. Various views have been held as to the identity of the author.

  • From the heroine who is, in a phrase of Dryden's, "one of the coolest and most insignificant" heroines ever drawn, to the undignified Valens, the termagant Marcelle, and the peevish Placide, there is hardly a good character.

  • Wilfred Tomkinson (" Phoebe," North Star," Trident," Mansfield," Whirlwind," Myngs," Velox," Morris Moorsom Melpomene, "Tempest" and "Tetrarch" to escort the force and cover it to seaward; "Termagant," "Truculent" and "Manly" to screen the Zeebrugge monitors).

  • The queen found relief in the quiet and respectful demeanour of her attendant, and gradually came to prefer her society to that of the termagant and tempestuous duchess.

  • A little later she is called "a regular termagant" and in 1607 "not very beautiful."' In December k 1609 she planned an escape with Sir George Douglas to Scotland, apparently with a view of arranging a marriage with Stephen Bogdan, pretender to Moldavia, and on the scheme being discovered she was arrested.

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