Crossword-Solution: UNARGUED 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

For instance, the severest sarcasms have been levelled against the sex, and they have been ridiculed for repeating "a set of phrases learnt by rote," when nothing could be more natural, considering the education they receive, and that their "highest praise is to obey, unargued"--the will of man.

What thou bidd'st Unargued I obey; so God ordains: God is thy law; thou mine, to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge, and her praise.

And he gave example as well as precept, showing--though his subjects, as in the case of the Guérins, were sometimes most eccentrically selected--a great deal of critical acuteness, coupled, it may be, with something of critical "will-worship," with a capricious and unargued preference of this and rejection of that, but exhibiting wide if not extraordinarily deep reading, an honest enthusiasm for the best things, and above all a fascinating rhetoric.

The language used by Eve in addressing Adam, in _Paradise Lost_-- My author and disposer, what thou bidst Unargued I obey, so God ordains.

His domestic experiences with his first wife could not have ministered to his happiness or content; experiences partly caused by the somewhat worldly ideals and desires of his spouse, but still more, perhaps, by his theory that what the husband bids it is the duty of the wife "unargued to obey." Meanwhile the promptings of his muse slackening for a long interval--an experience that has happened in the lives of other poets--he turned to prose, and to the controversial side of prose.