Definition of "womanliness" []

• The condition of being a woman; femininity (noun)

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• "Stern Moralist, being propelled down corridor: "Well, if the way to restore women to womanliness is to make them do drudgery which they can hire somebody else to do, why isn't -- --""
• "As has already been suggested, her womanliness is a more prominent characteristic of Mrs. Lewes's mind than its great intellectual power."
• "One Delineator article claimed that while sports "give the body perfect freedom of action and engender a courageous spirit, they detract nothing from that womanliness which is always woman's greatest charm.""