Hamlet vocabulary

He was oblig’d, in short, as Azora grew such a Termagant, to sue out a Bill of Divorce

Voltaire. Zadig.

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Baynard is a man of spirit, and had she proved a termagant, he would have known how to deal with her;

Tobias Smollett. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)

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I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod: pray you avoid it.

William Shakespeare. Hamlet.

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Mary, wife of Thomas Careless, of the Broad Eye, a perfect termagant, was ordered to pay 1/- penalty, and 7/6 costs, for an unprovoked assault on Mary, the wife of Lewis Bromley. During the investigation, her garrulity was so incessant that the mayor was under the necessity of sending for the ‘scold’s bridle,’ an iron instrument of very antique construction, which, in olden times, was occasionally called into use.

John Ashton. Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign (1903)