Crossword clues for womanhood
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Womanhood \Wom"an*hood\, n.
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The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind.
Unspotted faith, and comely womanhood.
--Spenser.Perhaps the smile and the tender tone Came out of her pitying womanhood.
--Tennyson. Women, collectively; womankind.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "condition of being a woman," also "qualities or characteristics considered natural to a woman," from woman + -hood. Meaning "women collectively" is attested from 1520s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The state of being a woman. 2 All the qualities typical of women. 3 women considered as a group. 4 (context euphemism English) The vulva.
WordNet
n. the state of being an adult woman [syn: muliebrity]
women as a class; "it's an insult to American womanhood"; "woman is the glory of creation" [syn: woman]
the status of a woman
Wikipedia
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"Womanhood" is a 1978 single written by Bobby Braddock and recorded by Tammy Wynette. It was released in 1978 as the second single from her album Womanhood. The song peaked at number 3 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart.
Usage examples of "womanhood".
In Basilica, where women had their pick of men, it would be one piss-poor specimen of womanhood who would choose a cripple like Issib for a mate.
How could she have believed a bondslave, a colonial who had already proven himself no gentleman, would respect her womanhood?
Although she felt herself to be far too bosomy, even misshapen, she realized that her breasts were a sign of her womanhood and that Percy, damn him, would not let her forget it.
I was back to womanhood, but only because the world thinks in dyads and Ben was more of a man than me.
So Edh grew toward womanhood, a tall, shy, slightly awkward girl with a gift for words when she chose to speak of things other than the everyday.
For want of proper instruction, many a girl through ignorance HAS caused derangements which have enfeebled her womanhood or terminated her life.
These natural causes of widowhood, as they may be called, are greatly aggravated by the destructive influence of alcohol upon fatherhood, as will be shown in the chapter dealing with alcohol and womanhood.
Cecilia and Marina were two sweet rosebuds, which, to bloom in all their beauty, required only the inspiration of love, and they would certainly have had the preference over Bellino if I had seen in him only the miserable outcast of mankind, or rather the pitiful victim of sacerdotal cruelty, for, in spite of their youth, the two amiable girls offered on their dawning bosom the precious image of womanhood.
Through his agents he deflowers a young girl not only without pain, but with the greatest pleasure she has ever known, from which she advances to full womanhood in a matter of days.
You must not return there until your Earthly age has caught up with your Joy Hall womanhood.
Atherton just continued to gaze into her eyes, and Mamie just continued to do her best not to melt into a puddle of ruined womanhood at his feet.
Miss Lurida Vincent, gold medallist of her year at the Corinna Institute, was the leader of these advocates of virile womanhood.
She forgot the men marching in the streets, forgot the outrage to her queenship, in the face of the menace to her womanhood.
Her womanhood, dormant for so long, refused to be denied the needs he had unleashed in her, so unfamiliar to her that she had no way of controlling them.
To an amazing degree she resembled that version of Eisel womanhood which Sune Mircea had defined: a tall, large-bosomed creature with great masses of brassy curls pinned with ornaments of carved bloodstone.