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womanly

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman; "womanly virtues of gentleness and compassion" [syn: feminine ] [ant: unwomanly ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Womanly \Wom"an*ly\, adv. In the manner of a woman; with the grace, tenderness, or affection of a woman. --Gascoigne.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, of a man, "wanton, lascivious;" late 14c. of a woman, "feminine," of qualities, "proper to a woman;" from woman + -ly (1). From c.1400 of men with the sense "effeminate, weak." Related: Womanliness .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Having the characteristics of a woman; feminine, female.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ He thought that since she'd had children, she'd grown more attractive and womanly . ▪ She had a plump, womanly figure. ▪ the conventional womanly virtues of patience and sense EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Am I proud of ...

Usage examples of womanly.

How could this most affectionate of human beings not have been touched by serious thoughts of love, by fires of desire during these years of womanly awakening?

I gave them a warm, womanly, compassionate smile and continued walking, quite pleased that they had considered me femininely pretty enough to be a fledgling prostitute.

He could not tell if there were male and female Geets, for they all had two womanly breasts, nor what their mating procedure was, but it was a certainty that, although they were short-lived, they were incredibly prolific.

The thought of Gleen seeing her like this, and using a knife on this slender, womanly soft body, was so obscene that he barely stifled the growl that began rumbling up from his chest.

It grieved him plaguily, he said, to see the nuptial couch defrauded of its dearest pledges: and to reflect upon so many agreeable females with rich jointures, a prey to the vilest bonzes, who hide their flambeau under a bushel in an uncongenial cloister or lose their womanly bloom in the embraces of some unaccountable muskin when they might multiply the inlets of happiness, sacrificing the inestimable jewel of their sex when a hundred pretty fellows were at hand to caress, this, he assured them, made his heart weep.

The Leonards would not attend them now, but with five such belles as Mesdames Stone, Darling, Davies, Flight, and Plodder, to say nothing of other lesser lights of the garrison galaxy, there was no lack of womanly beauty, only the cavaliers were short.

Granting that there was a womanly intelligence there, as yet unquickened, he was not so irrational as to imagine he could jostle it into illumining activity in one short hour, or day, or week.

And when at last Josiah Allen emerged from that chamber, he wuz a changed man in his demeanor and liniment, such is the power of love and womanly devotion.

With great reverence, and that full humbly And at the last there then began anon A lady for to sing right womanly, A bargaret, in praising the daisy.

I see well, that ye have on my distress Compassion, my faire Canace, Of very womanly benignity That nature in your princples hath set.

Despite his tremendous virility, Malemute Kid was possessed of a softer, womanly element, which could win the confidence of a snarling wolf-dog or draw confessions from the most wintry heart.

As he watched the workings of her lips, the helpless misery in her young eyes, the endeavour for self-command and the struggles of womanly pride, Mallard remembered how distinctly he had foreseen this in his past hours of anguish.

Surely no seaworthy galleon had ever been outfitted for battle with the same equipage and weapons she possessed within her cache, but this fine vessel of womanly softness was rigged for a most unusual contest, the entrapment and studied rebuff of no pompous youth, but a man well versed in the art of seduction.

Yet, with all her childishness and impetuosity, Erica was womanly, too, as Charles Osmond saw by the way she waited on her mother, thinking of everything which the invalid could possibly want while they were gone, brightening the whole place with her sunshiny presence.

Or would Shannon prefer to be in the middle while he and Tanny played with the startling blend of soft, womanly breasts on her chest and the small penis sticking up from the wiry curls and folds of her pussy lips?