[f. WOMAN sb. + -ISM.] Advocacy of or enthusiasm for the rights, achievements, etc., of women.
1863. Ld. W. P. Lennox, Biogr. Remin., I. 286. It became quite the rage to quote the ambiguous passages of her worst productions … as reflecting the strong-minded womanism of the nineteenth century.
1880. Blackmore, Mary Anerley, xxvii. II. 165. That the mother of his daughter … should now turn round and take her part, from downright womanism, in the teeth of all reason.
