Definitions

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  • adjective Preceding but anticipating or laying the groundwork for feminism

Etymologies

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proto- +‎ feminist

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Examples

  • (The current comics conception of her as an authoritarian figure just underlines all that's kinky and male-gazey about this amusingly crude "protofeminist" icon.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • (The current comics conception of her as an authoritarian figure just underlines all that's kinky and male-gazey about this amusingly crude "protofeminist" icon.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • (The current comics conception of her as an authoritarian figure just underlines all that's kinky and male-gazey about this amusingly crude "protofeminist" icon.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • (The current comics conception of her as an authoritarian figure just underlines all that's kinky and male-gazey about this amusingly crude "protofeminist" icon.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • (The current comics conception of her as an authoritarian figure just underlines all that's kinky and male-gazey about this amusingly crude "protofeminist" icon.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • (The current comics conception of her as an authoritarian figure just underlines all that's kinky and male-gazey about this amusingly crude "protofeminist" icon.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • (The current comics conception of her as an authoritarian figure just underlines all that's kinky and male-gazey about this amusingly crude "protofeminist" icon.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • Marge is a freewill agent, but I hope daughter Lisa — protofeminist that she is — gives her a good what-for.

    Oh, Marge. Say it isn’t so « Dating Jesus 2009

  • Marge is a freewill agent, but I hope daughter Lisa — protofeminist that she is — gives her a good what-for.

    09 « October « 2009 « Dating Jesus 2009

  • Simone, according to neighborhood gossip passed along to me by the reader who invented her is an independently wealthy protofeminist who meets Betty at the grocery store.

    Mad Mannionites work out their psycho-dramas in anticipation of tonight's episode of Mad Men 2009

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