strongminded

comparative more strongminded · superlative most strongminded

1. alternativeAlternative form of strong-minded.

   It is in the main, a faithful picture of the isms of the North, and of Western Europe, except that our modern socialists exceed somewhat in absurdity and profanity the Black Republicans, and strongminded women of Athens.

   1857, James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Q. Bell, DeBow's Review

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   Alexander III, the last of the consistently strongminded autocrats, launched a counterreform after the assassination of his father, but also set in motion a rapid program of industrialization which added industrial cities to the symmetrical garrison towns.

   1988, Richard Stites, Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution, →ISBN, page xi

   In her article “The Greatest of Bugaboos,” in which she also attacked the charge of “free love,” she noted that the term “strongminded” has been thrown at women to control their behavior: “Then came 'strongminded,' that sent the daughters of Eve scampering in all directions.

   2013, Carole Haber, The Trials of Laura Fair: Sex, Murder, and Insanity in the Victorian West, →ISBN