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Meanings of womanliness in английском

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The quality of being feminine; qualities and behaviours deemed to be typical for women and girls.

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

              Usage of womanliness in английском
              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
              6
              She had brain, she had wit, and, above all, she had womanliness.
              The Jacket (The Star-Rover)
              7
              The physical womanliness of woman essentially consists in wifehood and maternity.
              The Friendships of Women
              8
              The gracious womanliness of her struck Vera afresh with its charm.
              The Obstacle Race
              9
              From this gracious figure was exhaled invisible radiations-theluxurious sense of refined womanliness.
              An Algonquin Maiden: A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada
              10
              She exuded a faint and intoxicating perfume of womanliness, like a crushed herb
              Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases / A Practical Handbook Of Pertin...
              11
              Juliet possessed to a degree that pervasive womanliness which vanquishes mankind.
              The Voice of the People
              12
              Her mood veered, and she whirled impulsively toward him, all womanliness and contrition.
              The Henchman
              13
              Any thing that takes away from modesty, refinement, gentleness, takes away from womanliness.
              Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! Helps for Girls, in School and Out
              14
              Her moral womanliness consists in modesty and self-denial, the preponderance of disinterestedness over egotism.
              The Friendships of Women
              15
              We are told that true manliness and true womanliness are one and the same.
              Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! Helps for Girls, in School and Out
              16
              Mrs. Duncan, plump, motherly, lovable in the mature womanliness of forty, greeted him cordially.
              The Cow Puncher
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