Grimké

American  

[grim-kee] / ˈgrɪm ki /

noun

1. Sarah Moore, 1792–1873, and her sister Angelina Emily, 1805–79, U.S. abolitionists and women's-rights leaders.

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Example Sentences

Sarah and Angelina Grimke became famous in part for joining the abolitionist movement, unlike most of their white peers.

From Los Angeles Times

The Grimké sisters, Sarah Moore and Angelina Emily, were Quakers and daughters of a prominent South Carolina judge.

From Literature

Angelina Weld Grimké, already canonized as a writer of propagandist plays of racial uplift and pastoral lyrical poetry, might more provocatively be recast as a queer and feminist pioneer.

From New York Times

In Grimké’s hands, the meter generates an unsettled urgency:

From New York Times

Longing quickens the pulse of these lines: their singsong regularity followed by sudden disruption, a conscious stumbling as Grimké’s first-person speaker makes her passion plain, before returning to the rigid music of the form.

From New York Times