Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being womanly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being womanly.
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- noun the condition of being a
woman ;femininity
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the trait of being womanly; having the characteristics of an adult female
Etymologies
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Examples
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Stern Moralist, being propelled down corridor: "Well, if the way to restore women to womanliness is to make them do drudgery which they can hire somebody else to do, why isn't -- --"
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As has already been suggested, her womanliness is a more prominent characteristic of Mrs. Lewes's mind than its great intellectual power.
George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy George Willis Cooke 1885
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As has already been suggested, her womanliness is a more prominent characteristic of Mrs. Lewes's mind than its great intellectual power.
George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philosophy Cooke, George W 1884
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One Delineator article claimed that while sports "give the body perfect freedom of action and engender a courageous spirit, they detract nothing from that womanliness which is always woman's greatest charm."
"Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930 2006
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Democracy becomes the latest trick of tyranny: "womanliness" becomes the latest wile of prostitution.
Treatise on Parents and Children George Bernard Shaw 1903
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Lorraine was a woman of the world, with a larger mixture of the other kind of womanliness, perhaps, than was usual, and he in his perspicacity had deftly appealed to both.
Winding Paths Gertrude Page 1897
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From Jiu's mother Nilima (The Magic Spell), the maid hanging clothes out to dry (Holiday Homework), Rashmi's (The Favourite Child) cream silk shawl she adds to her shoulders on a visit to her dying mother, Anupam's mother (Honeybees), a master weaver - most women characters in this book are either wrapped in their mekehela sadors or saris or in a one-dimensional 'womanliness'.
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This roles; "womanliness" is like "femininity", but process becomes necessary to cope with is usually associated with a different view of one's own behaviour, especially in gender roles;
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Martial arts, which was also designed as a set of self- and others'-protection skills, has become more about proving personal toughness or manliness -- or even womanliness.
Tom Matlack: Men And Guns: Do Guys Have An Affinity For Steel? Tom Matlack 2011
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Martial arts, which was also designed as a set of self- and others'-protection skills, has become more about proving personal toughness or manliness -- or even womanliness.
Tom Matlack: Men And Guns: Do Guys Have An Affinity For Steel? Tom Matlack 2011
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