a-women

See also: awomen

English

Interjection

a-women

1. Alternative form of awoman
   • [1856 June 10, Hartford Daily Courant‎^[1], volume XX, number 139 (whole 5567), Hartford, Conn., column 5:

     The child of a Woman’s Rights advocate heard the Lord’s prayer in a public school. “Ma,” said she upon coming home, “I don’t want to say ‘Amen’ at the end, as the other girls do. Why can’t I say A-women?”]

   • 1879 December 25, “Merry Christmas!”, in Black Hills Daily Pioneer‎^[2], volume 3, number 162, Deadwood, S.D., column 2:

     And may every one of them live to see a thousand Christmases after the last fool and knave is driven from the high places of the land we love, and honesty, purity, decency and prosperity reign unbroken from ocean to ocean, is the Pioneer’s prayer, now, henceforth and forevermore, world without end—Amen! A-women!

   • 1880 March 6, “A Short Pioneer Patent Sermon”, in Black Hills Weekly Pioneer‎^[3], volume 4, number 35, Deadwood, S.D., column 3:

     Never despair of liberty and the republic, and pay for your paper in advance—And, as surely as there is a heaven for christians, and another and altogether different place for a large proportion of our so-called statesmen, you will be healthy, wealthy, wise and happy. Pax vobiscum. A-men A-women.

   • 1880 May 8, “Dress. Woman and Her Fashions, Tastes, Notions and Whims Defended. Some Rough Slashes at Various Maligners and Scoffers.”, in Black Hills Weekly Pioneer‎^[4], volume 4, number 44, Deadwood, S.D., column 4:

     And may God bless you all and give you husbands able and willing to gratify your every wish and whim! Amen! A-women!

   • 1885 September 18, The Courier-Journal, volume LXIX, number 6,106, Lousville, Ken., page 12, column 6:

     It was a big day, a big crowd and a big time. For which let us all be thankful—world without end—amen and a-women, not forgetting the children.

   • 1885 October 4, “Pat Donan’s Wild Shriek. [From His Speech at the Tennessee Banquet.]”, in The Daily Examiner, volume XLI, number 96, San Francisco, Calif., page 3, column 9:

     Now, henceforth and forevermore, world without end—amen, a-women!

   • 1886 April 26, Peter Donan, “Love and Matrimony. Some Original Views by Peter Donan.”, in The Times-Democrat, New Orleans, La., page 6, column 7:

     I would rather cook forever my lone corn dodger, wash my own solitary paper collar, sew on my own pasteboard horn buttons, and do my own darning and other diminutive profanity, than dream of such a fraud on womankind or unkind, now, henceforth and for ninety days or so, world without end, amen, a-women!

   • 1897 January 15, Geo. E. Glass, “Woman Suffrage”, in Kansas Agitator‎^[5], volume 7, number 35, Garnett, Kan., column 3:

     Yours for reform! Amen! A-women! World without end, with Kansas ahead!

   • 1902 November 28, “A Question of Sex”, in The Minneapolis Journal, Minneapolis, Minn., page 16, column 6:

     She was repeating her prayers at bedtime recently, the Lord’s Prayer first, and, as is her habit, winding up with petition for blessings on the various members of the family of both sexes. But this time, when she came to the conclusion, she hesitated a moment as a new idea struck her, and then in a most devout tone added: “Amen and a-women!” “Why, daughter, you must not say that! What did you say ‘a-women’ for?” asked her mother in surprise. “Well,” replied the young philosopher, “didn’t I pray for women as well as men?”