step-dame

And thus unmarried maidens and widowed mothers too wandered uncared for through the city; no father heeded his daughter ever so little even though he should see her done to death before his eyes at the hands of an insolent step-dame, nor did sons, as before, defend their mother against unseemly outrage; nor did brothers care at heart for their sister.

The Argonautica 2008

This Order, therefore, may prove a nursing-mother to sects, but I shall easily show how it will be a step-dame to Truth: and first by disenabling us to the maintenance of what is known already.

Areopagitica 2007

This Order, therefore, may prove a nursing-mother to sects, but I shall easily show how it will be a step-dame to Truth: and first by disenabling us to the maintenance of what is known already.

Areopagitica 2007

    Maiden, a step-dame fair in freer luxury clasping.

Poems and Fragments 2006

    Maiden, a step-dame fair in freer luxury clasping.

Poems and Fragments 2006

He had expected to find, and in a little time actually discovered, that mutual jealousy and rancour which almost always subsist between a daughter and her step-dame, inflamed with all the virulence of female emulation; for the disparity in their ages served only to render them the more inveterate rivals in the desire of captivating the other sex.

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom 2004

Maiden, a step-dame fair in freer luxury clasping.

The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus

And thus unmarried maidens and widowed mothers too wandered uncared for through the city; no father heeded his daughter ever so little even though he should see her done to death before his eyes at the hands of an insolent step-dame, nor did sons, as before, defend their mother against unseemly outrage; nor did brothers care at heart for their sister.

The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius

Lluc I think ever as you think now, lest the faith that seems a fortress should prove a prison, the mother a step-dame, -- lest the high, chivalrous spirit, incapable of a safe desertion, should immolate truth or itself on the altar of consistency.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Various

And thus unmarried maidens and widowed mothers too wandered uncared for through the city; no father heeded his daughter ever so little even though he should see her done to death before his eyes at the hands of an insolent step-dame, nor did sons, as before, defend their mother against unseemly outrage; nor did brothers care at heart for their sister.

The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius