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Meanings of maidenhood in English

Spanish
juventud femenina

The childhood of a girl.

juventud femenina
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Examples for "girlhood"
Examples for "girlhood"
1
In the springtime of girlhood, Clara felt herself transformed into a woman.
Beulah
2
The Calabar of my girlhood is among the things of the past.
Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary
3
Tarnish the sacredness of girlhood and you scar the purity of womanhood.
"Thirty Years In Hell" Or, "From Darkness to Light"
4
The face and bust are beautiful with the bloom of perfect girlhood.
Views A-foot; Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff
5
For the coming of that religion the world of girlhood eagerly waits.
The Girl and Her Religion
1
Certes, it was not my brother who won thy maidhood.
The Nibelungenlied
2
All through the kaleidoscopic transformation-scenes of the "season", through which she moved magnificently, old-maidhood notwithstanding, she was unconsciously seeking him.
Sisters
3
As pure as maidhood's early days;
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14,...
4
I am a woman, and as I do not think that I shall ever marry, I refuse to be chaperoned all the way to old-maidhood.
Taquisara
5
"I hate your manhood, send it after the maidhood; it fits me just as badly."
Gulliver of Mars
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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