woman-being

Updated: June 16, 2025

They have even brought in the sex-spell; and the poor, frightened soldier-boy, who has perhaps spent the night with a prostitute, now prostrates himself before a holy Woman-being who is lifted high above the shames of the flesh, and who stirs the thrills of awe and affection which his mother brought to him in early childhood.

Upton Sinclair - The Profits of Religion

Not Larry let me go even as you will but not him!" She threw up frantic hands to the woman-being of the Trinity. "Let me bear it alone," she wailed. "Alone mother! Mother!" The Three bent their heads toward her, their faces pitiful, and from the eyes of the woman One rolled tears! Larry leaped to Lakla's side. "Mavourneen!" he cried. "Sweetheart, what have they said to you?"

Abraham Merritt - The Moon Pool