Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of women, often in showing qualities traditionally attributed to women.
- adjective Fully developed as a woman, as in having a curvaceous figure.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In the manner of a woman.
- Characteristic of, like, or befitting a woman; suiting a woman; feminine; not masculine; not girlish: as, womanly behavior.
- Synonyms Womanish, Ladylike, etc. See
feminine .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Becoming a woman; feminine.
- adverb In the manner of a woman; with the grace, tenderness, or affection of a woman.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having the characteristics of a woman;
feminine ,female .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman
Etymologies
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Examples
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It could be part culture that being womanly is being pleasant and agreeable.
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I call womanly; it was not like Ethelbertha at all.
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Study, exercise, housework, and many wholesome pleasures kept her a happy, hearty creature, yearly growing in womanly graces, yet always preserving the innocent freshness girls lose so soon when too early set upon the world's stage and given a part to play.
Rose in Bloom 1876
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What you call womanly honor I have been taught to hold as sacred as you yourself, and
Serapis — Volume 06 Georg Ebers 1867
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What you call womanly honor I have been taught to hold as sacred as you yourself, and
Serapis — Volume 06 Georg Ebers 1867
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What you call womanly honor I have been taught to hold as sacred as you yourself, and I have kept it as untainted as any girl living.
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867
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What you call womanly honor I have been taught to hold as sacred as you yourself, and
Serapis — Volume 06 Georg Ebers 1867
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What you call womanly honor I have been taught to hold as sacred as you yourself, and I have kept it as untainted as any girl living.
Serapis — Complete Georg Ebers 1867
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She's not what I call womanly, and I hate these unsexed females. "
The Simpkins Plot George A. Birmingham 1907
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"That girl, whom I so loved, whom I treated as my child, who was to me an image of what they call womanly purity, throws herself away upon my most detested enemy, a loathsome corpse, whose body, soul, and spirit had already decayed.
Debts of Honor M��r J��kai 1864
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