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  • noun Plural form of womanliness.

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Examples

  • In some ways she was very ignorant and childish for her age, notwithstanding her little womanlinesses and almost precocious good sense, and to tell the truth,

    Grandmother Dear A Book for Boys and Girls Mrs. Molesworth 1880

  • Daisy was as sunshiny and charming as ever, with all sorts of womanlinesses budding in her, for she was like her gentle mother, and delighted in domestic things.

    Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys 1871

  • Daisy was as sunshiny and charming as ever, with all sorts of womanlinesses budding in her, for she was like her gentle mother, and delighted in domestic things.

    Little Men Louisa May Alcott 1860

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