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fallen woman |
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a fallen woman (old-fashioned) a woman who is not respected any more because she had sex without being married. Many fallen women were forced to work as prostitutes, some were shut away in asylums. |
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I said that a fallen woman should be forgiven, but I didn't say I could forgive her. Then why -- since the choice was with himself -- should the individual, whose connexion with the fallen woman had been the most intimate and sacred of them all, come forward to vindicate his claim to an inheritance so little desirable? In that dress, with a princess only too well known to everyone, to show yourself at the theater is equivalent not merely to acknowledging your position as a fallen woman, but is flinging down a challenge to society, that is to say, cutting yourself off from it forever. |
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