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Meanings of womanlike in inglês

The trait of being womanly; having the characteristics of an adult female.

        Womanlike.

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                Examples for "womanliness"
                1
                This reverence for woman is the first and truest step towards womanliness.
                Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! Helps for Girls, in School and Out
                2
                She has been aroused to remember that womanliness is not chiefly decorative.
                Creative Unity
                3
                She is a Raby too, only softened down by her sweet womanliness.
                Put Yourself in His Place
                4
                He loved her for her sweetness, for her womanliness, for her strength.
                Beyond the City
                5
                Has all the sweetness, all the womanliness, gone out of your character?
                Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
                Usage of womanlike in inglês
                1
                But she insisted, womanlike; and he at last consented to a bite.
                Darkness and Dawn
                2
                And so, womanlike, she conveyed the Idea from her brain to his.
                The Mountebank
                3
                But, womanlike, she would not miss the chance to thrust at me.
                The Master of Appleby / A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part w...
                4
                Honor sat upright, and womanlike, took both Jean's hands in hers, saying-
                Honor Edgeworth; Or, Ottawa's Present Tense
                5
                Zora flew to the bassinette and glowed womanlike over the baby.
                Septimus
                6
                The charm of the denied, the inaccessible is on her, womanlike.
                Robert Elsmere
                7
                It was a soft and delicate hand, very white and womanlike.
                Recalled to Life
                8
                She gave half reasons, womanlike, of which I proved the inadequacy.
                The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel
                9
                And, womanlike, she gave it, with a shrug of one shoulder.
                Roden's Corner
                10
                Then, womanlike, instinctively as she breathed, the girl ran to him.
                Darkness and Dawn
                11
                I began an explanation, and rambled off, womanlike, into praise of my lover.
                Cashel Byron's Profession
                12
                It was womanlike, merely, on her part, to desire to know his mind.
                As It Was in the Beginning
                13
                It was womanlike to do so, and I can't blame her.
                Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia
                14
                How tall and womanlike they looked in their dark serge dresses!
                Sisters Three
                15
                Even so, womanlike, she listened, expecting to hear Jack's step hurrying up behind.
                North of Fifty-Three
                16
                Then it had been on account of Manley; now, womanlike, it was her clothes.
                Lonesome Land
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