Stopes

[ stohps ]

noun

1. Marie Carmichael, 1880–1958, English scientist and birth control advocate.

Stopes

/ stəʊps /

noun

1. StopesMarie Carmichael18801958FEnglishPOLITICS: birth control campaigner Marie Carmichael. 1880–1958, English pioneer of birth control, who established the first birth-control clinic in Britain (1921)

Example Sentences

That is Dr. Stopes, the learned geologist, said the hostess, and the Yokohama matron collapsed.

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Dr. Stopes has attempted to meet the need of such seekers, and her book will certainly be warmly welcomed by them.

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Dr. Stopes makes some very important biological suggestions which should not be lightly dismissed.

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They have such fits that it stopes theare wind, and puts me to such frits and feares that I am not myselfe.

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The book also bore the signature of his brother, James Stopes.

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