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womanly

Speech parts

1. womanly - Adjective

2. womanly - Adverb

Meaning

Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior.

In the manner of a woman; with the grace, tenderness, or affection of a woman.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly. Virginia Woolf

She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners. Louisa May Alcott

Liberals have managed to eliminate the idea of manly honor. Instead, all they have is womanly indignation. Ann Coulter

While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe. Friedrich Schiller

Sing lullabie, as women do,Wherewith they bring their babes to rest;And lullabie can I sing to,As womanly as can the best. George Gascoigne

Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush! Agatha Christie

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