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- noun The state or condition of being
vixenish .
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Examples
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If one admits the truth it must be owned that if she had not had bestowed upon her by nature gifts of beauty and vivacity so extraordinary, and had been cursed with a thousandth part of the vixenishness she displayed every day of her life, he would have broken every bone in her carcase without a scruple or a qualm.
A Lady of Quality 1896
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If one admits the truth, it must be owned that if she had not had bestowed upon her by nature gifts of beauty and vivacity so extraordinary, and had been cursed with a thousandth part of the vixenishness she displayed every day of her life, he would have broken every bone in her carcass without a scruple or a qualm.
A Lady of Quality Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886
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