Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or condition of a woman; womanhood.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Womanhood.

Etymologies

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From woman +‎ -head.

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Examples

  • For your foote pirrichius or of two short silables ye haue these words [manie] [money] [penie] [silie] and others of that constitution or the like: for your feete of three times and first your dactill, ye haue these wordes & a number moe patience, temperance, womanhead, iolitie, daungerous, duetifull & others.

    The Arte of English Poesie 1569

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