Definition of "unmaidenly" []

• Not maidenly. (adjective)

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• "It was the whisperings of her womanly nature that caused her to shrink from any unmaidenly action, not Margaret's counsel."
• "She wouldn't do it at once, for that would show unmaidenly eagerness, but possibly on the second or third day; if she delayed to the fourth day, she was a proper little tease."
• "All this shows very well in a girl prepared to obey her parents in a match sanctioned by her father; but such tokens of intimacy, bestowed on one whom a young woman cannot esteem, and is determined not to marry, are uncomely and unmaidenly."