womanist
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
womanist (comparative more womanist, superlative most womanist)
- Relating to or in accordance with womanism.
- 2000, Tuzyline Jita Allan, “The Color Purple: A Study of Walker's Womanist Gospel”, in Harold Bloom, editor, Alice Walker's The Color Purple, Chelsea House, →ISBN, page 120:
- For Walker, the battle against patriarchal society and its multiple sins of sexism, racism, classism and homophobia (among others) needs the womanist spirit of defiance and irreverence, on the one hand, and the desire for social integration, on the other.
Noun[edit]
womanist (plural womanists)
- One whose beliefs accord with womanism.