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Meanings of maidenhood in English

Spanish
juventud femenina

The childhood of a girl.

        juventud femenina
        Usage of maidenhood in English
        1
        Ceyx, the son of the morning-star, wedded her in her early maidenhood.
        Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2
        2
        Twenty and maidenhood lies at the opposite pole from twenty-four and matrimony.
        Big Timber: A Story of the Northwest
        3
        It is not love you feel, but the changing fancies of maidenhood.
        The Maid of the Whispering Hills
        4
        Back of them, he felt, was the mystery of purity, of maidenhood.
        The Yukon Trail: A Tale of the North
        5
        He slid himself deeper into her, breaking the mantle of her maidenhood.
        Heaven and the heather
        6
        Perversity, thy name is maidenhood; and maidenhood, thy name is delicious inconsequence!
        Alice of Old Vincennes
        7
        Beautiful Persephone, who left maidenhood with such a struggle, help me in mine.
        Helen of troy
        8
        The religion of the future will honor and revere motherhood, wifehood and maidenhood.
        The Woman's Bible
        9
        I have waited long enough; I have got tired of maidenhood.
        The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 2...
        10
        She was at rest, the pure, the gentle, at rest in her maidenhood.
        Thyrza
        11
        You have discarded everything that men-marrying men-theright sort of men-demand in maidenhood.
        The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig: A Novel
        12
        She asked it prettily, with a smile like that of maidenhood.
        New Grub Street
        13
        Here she grew into maidenhood, and each day became more fair.
        A Book of Myths
        14
        That seven generations of dung-beetles congregated in the hair of her worthless maidenhood.
        Anno Dracula
        15
        No angel, Jack, but a most exquisite, perfect flower of maidenhood.
        Winter Evening Tales
        16
        Would she outrage her maidenhood by acknowledgment of De Montespan's title to consideration?
        Prince Eugene and His Times
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