weaker vessel

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Meaning: (idiomatic,dated,nowoffensive)Awoman;womencollectively.1611,The Holy Bible,[…](King James Version), London:[…]Robert Barker,[…],→OCLC,1 Peter3:7:Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto theweaker vessel.1727,Daniel Defoe, chapter 8, inThe Political History of the Devil:Certainly, when Satan first made the Attempt uponEve, he did not think he should have so easily conquered her. . . . Well might she be said to be theweaker Vessel, tho’Adamhimself had little enough to say for his being the stronger.1868–1869,Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter 41, inLittle Women:[…],(please specify |part=1 or 2), Boston, Mass.:Roberts Brothers,→OCLC:When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give theweaker vesselhalf the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.

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