Definition of "maidenlike" []

• Like a maiden; gentle, demure. (adjective)

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• "Then, perhaps feeling that she may have offended me, she quickly added: "Not of course that I doubt that there are maidenlike ladies in America.""
• "Ever and anon there gleamed across the young man’s mind a sense of wonder that he should be walking side by side with the being who had so wrought upon his imagination, whom he had idealized in such hues of terror, in whom he had positively witnessed such manifestations of dreadful attributes, —that he should be conversing with Beatrice like a brother, and should find her so human and so maidenlike."
• "His eyes rested on the pure outline of her maidenlike face, and he was silent for a moment."