inner woman

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"Ma'áni-há," lit. her meanings, i.e. her inner woman opposed to the formal-seen by every one.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 04 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Ah! her manner—it concealed the inner woman so as to leave doubt of her existence!

From The Island Pharisees by Galsworthy, John

Yet it was the revealing of the inner woman, rather than the withering of the exterior, which betrayed her years. 

From An Ambitious Man by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

At least such reticence to self is often sincerely and plausibly asserted by the very inner woman.

From The Seeker by Wilson, Harry Leon

All that splendid faith, which is exactly to the inner woman what courage is to the physical woman, had slipped away from me.

From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston