strong-mindedadj.
/ˌstrɒŋˈmʌɪndᵻd/, U.S. /ˈˌstrɔŋˈˌmaɪndᵻd/, /ˈˌstrɑŋˈˌmaɪndᵻd/ 1. Having a strong, vigorous, or determined mind; not readily influenced by others, independent-minded.
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the mind > will > decision > constancy or steadfastness > [adjective] > capable of moral effort or endurance
strongeOE
dreicha1200
stable13..
wilfulc1330
toughc1400
durable1541
strong-minded1544
unbending1796
cast iron1829
backboned1940
1544 G. Joye Present Consol. Sufferers Persecucion sig. C.viv But let vs be stronge mynded & constant in our lorde god.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1778 II. 253 A certain nobleman..was one of the strongest-minded men that ever lived.
1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 205 That pious, learned, strong-minded, and single-hearted Jew.
1864 G. A. Lawrence Maurice Dering II. 245 Stronger-minded women than my little Georgie have gone down before the fascination that that unhappy man seemed able to exercise.
1901 G. B. Shaw Three Plays for Puritans p. xx The strong-minded Bismarckian man of action.
1967 T. Wilder Eighth Day ii. 149 She was strong-minded and tirelessly active.
2004 N.Y. Times Mag. 21 Nov. 40/2 What stopped Saddam was the will of a few strong-minded leaders.
2. Chiefly depreciative. Between the mid 19th and early 20th cent.: applied to women having qualities or behaviour conventionally regarded as masculine, or opposed to the legal restrictions on, and society's prevailing attitudes towards, women. Now historical.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > [adjective] > of women
strong-minded1843
the world > people > person > woman > [adjective] > man-like woman
mannisha1425
manlyc1511
mankind1566
Amazonical1582
Amazonian1595
virago1598
manlike1605
masculine1611
viraginian1642
viraginous1667
Amazonic1782
strong-minded1843
andromorphous1865
1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) iv. 42 Then there was the widow of a deceased brother.., who being almost supernaturally disagreeable, and having a dreary face and a bony figure and a masculine voice, was..what is commonly called a strong-minded woman.
1855 E. C. Gaskell North & South II. xxiv. 330 What with Sholto playing with the fire, and the baby crying, you'll begin to wish for a strong-minded woman, equal to any emergency.
1878 W. Besant & J. Rice By Celia's Arbour I. vi. 85 They had not become strong-minded; they did not sit on School Boards and sigh for Female Suffrage.
1911 G. B. Shaw Getting Married Pref. in Doctor's Dilemma 143 The strong-minded ladies..are resolved to be mistresses in their own houses.
1994 C. A. Farnham Educ. Southern Belle 3 The South..vilified the strong-minded woman.
Derivatives
strong-ˈmindedness n.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > [noun] > of women
strong-mindedness1826
the world > people > person > woman > [noun] > man-like woman > quality or state of being
mannishnessc1450
strong-mindedness1826
masculinity1865
masculineness1901
masculinism1911
1826 Examiner 5 Nov. 726/1 (advt.) A vade-mecum of learning, truth, and strong-mindedness.
1849 C. Brontë Shirley II. xii. 294 With all her strictness, with all her ‘strongmindedness’, she could gain no command over them.
1859 J. W. Carlyle Lett. III. 1 There is a growing taste for fastness, or, still worse, for strong-mindedness.
1919 H. V. Barnett tr. J. Massenet My Recoll. xxi. 210 I knew Benjamin Godard and his strong-mindedness as well as the wealth and liveliness of his inspiration.
2006 Daily Variety (Nexis) 28 Nov. a15 Directors just out of film school..sometimes allow their strongmindedness to get in the way of the collaborative process that is filmmaking.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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