Definition of Stepdame. Meaning of Stepdame. Synonyms of Stepdame

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Definition of Stepdame

Stepdame
Stepdame Step"dame`, n. A stepmother. --Spenser.

Meaning of Stepdame from wikipedia

-  Gave me three daughters and a son to know;  The next—ah! virtue in a stepdame rare!—  Nursed my sweet infants with a mother's care.  With both my years...
- and line breaks.[citation needed] Whose sense in so evil consort, their stepdame Nature lays, That ravishing delight in them most sweet tunes do not raise;...
- used lines from "The Hound of Heaven" as titles for his "Nature, Poor Stepdame, A Series of Sixteen Farm Paintings" In 1975 "The Hound of Heaven" was...
- for her husband to remarry. By using the lines, "These O protect from stepdame's injury", Bradstreet is calling for her children to be protected from the...
- round the Day's Dead Sanctities from 1970 is part of his Nature, Poor Stepdame series, and indicates that he was still building frames for his own paintings...
- Prioress Sir Launfal Friar Daw's Reply Jack Upland Sir Orfeo Jack and his Stepdame Translation of Medieval English texts into Spanish which offer a negative...
- (Newton Abbott: David & Charles 1973). Susan C. Staub. Nature's cruel stepdames : murderous women in the street literature of seventeenth century England...