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SHE, pronoun personal of the feminine gender. [She is perhaps the Heb. a woman or wife. L. quoe.]

1. A pronoun which is a substitute for the name of a female, and of the feminine gender; the word which refers to a female mentioned in the preceding or following part of a sentence or discourse.

Then denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. Gen. 18.

2. She is sometimes used as a noun for waman or female, and in the plural; but in contempt or in ludicrous language.

Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive. Shak.

The shes of Italy shall not betray

My interest. Shak.

3. She is also used in composition for female, representing sex; as a she-bear; a she-cat.



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SHE, pronoun personal of the feminine gender. [She is perhaps the Heb. a woman or wife. L. quoe.]

1. A pronoun which is a substitute for the name of a female, and of the feminine gender; the word which refers to a female mentioned in the preceding or following part of a sentence or discourse.

Then denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. Gen. 18.

2. She is sometimes used as a noun for waman or female, and in the plural; but in contempt or in ludicrous language.

Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive. Shak.

The shes of Italy shall not betray

My interest. Shak.

3. She is also used in composition for female, representing sex; as a she-bear; a she-cat.


SHE, pron. [pronoun personal of the feminine gender. Sax. seo; Goth. si; D. zy; G. sie. The Danes and Swedes use for he and she, the word from which the English has hen; Dan. han, he, the male; hun, she, the female; hane, a cock; Sw. han, he; hanne, a cock; hon, hennes, henne, she. This is the root of Henry. She is perhaps the Heb. אשה, a woman or wife, In the Saxon, seo is used as an adjective, and may be rendered the or a. It is also used as a relative, answering to who, L. quæ. It is also used for he and that. In English, she has no variation, and is used only in the nominative case. In the oblique cases, we use hers and her, a distinct word.]

  1. A pronoun which is the substitute for the name of a female, and of the feminine gender; the word which refers to a female mentioned in the preceding or following part of a sentence or discourse. Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. – Gen. xviii.
  2. She is sometimes used as a noun for woman or female, and in the plural; but in contempt or in ludicrous language. Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive. – Shak. The shes of Italy shall not betray / My interest. – Shak.
  3. She is used also in composition for female, representing sex; as, a she-bear; a she-cat.

She
  1. This or that female; the woman understood or referred to; the animal of the female sex, or object personified as feminine, which was spoken of.

    She loved her children best in every wise. Chaucer.

    Then Sarah denied, . . . for she was afraid. Gen. xviii. 15.

  2. A woman; a female; -- used substantively.

    [R.]

    Lady, you are the cruelest she alive. Shak.

    * She is used in composition with nouns of common gender, for female, to denote an animal of the female sex; as, a she-bear; a she-cat.

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She

SHE, pronoun personal of the feminine gender. [She is perhaps the Heb. a woman or wife. Latin quoe.]

1. A pronoun which is a substitute for the name of a female, and of the feminine gender; the word which refers to a female mentioned in the preceding or following part of a sentence or discourse.

Then denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. Genesis 18:15.

2. She is sometimes used as a noun for waman or female, and in the plural; but in contempt or in ludicrous language.

Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive. Shak.

The shes of Italy shall not betray

My interest. Shak.

3. She is also used in composition for female, representing sex; as a she-bear; a she-cat.

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

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He believes himself a man of importance.

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