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- adjective
superlative form ofwomanly : mostwomanly .
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Examples
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A handsome apology is the handsomest thing in the world -- and the manliest and the womanliest.
From a Girl's Point of View Lilian Bell
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King's daughter, the sweet, chaste, faithful, and courageous Imogen, the tenderest and womanliest woman that Shakspeare ever made immortal in the world.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various
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She thought she was prospering finely, but unconsciously she was beginning to desecrate some of the womanliest attributes of a woman's character.
Little Women 1921
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"Now, you are what I would call womanly -- the womanliest woman I've ever known."
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Mrs. Stanton, too, is a magnificent woman, and the truest, womanliest one of us all.
The Life and Work of Susan B Anthony 01 Harper, Ida H 1899
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Mrs. Stanton, too, is a magnificent woman, and the truest, womanliest one of us all.
The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years Ida Husted Harper 1891
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She divined what was in his mind, and sent him to Heaven with one of the womanliest and loveliest things that ever woman said to man: "Why don't you speak for yourself, John?" she asked, gazing straight at him, with a quiver of her lips that was half humor and half the promise of tears.
The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 Julian Hawthorne 1890
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"Now, you are what I would call womanly -- the womanliest woman I've ever known."
The Pit Frank Norris 1886
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It sounded so genuine; to the ears of her husband it must have been purest, womanliest sincerity.
Will Warburton George Gissing 1880
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Such is Hermione, in her “proud submission,” her “dignified obedience,” with her Roman firmness and integrity of soul, heroic in strength, heroic in gentleness, the queenliest of women, the womanliest of queens.
Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872
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