pro-woman

adjective

In favor of or supporting women.

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Meanings

adjectivepro-woman (comparative more pro-woman, superlative most pro-woman)

comparative more pro-woman · superlative most pro-woman · alternative prowoman

  1. In favor of or supporting women.

    Overtly pro-woman works such as Moderata Fonte's Il merito delle donne (The Worth of Women, 1600), explicitly integrated women's knowledge of medicine and natural philosophy into an overt and wideranging defense of women.

    2015, Meredith K. Ray, Daughters of Alchemy: Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy, →ISBN

Origin

From pro- + woman.

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APA

pro-woman. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pro-woman

MLA

“pro-woman.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pro-woman. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pro-woman,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pro-woman.

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