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Womanhood   /wˈʊmənhˌʊd/   Listen
noun
Womanhood  n.  
1.
The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind. "Unspotted faith, and comely womanhood." "Perhaps the smile and the tender tone Came out of her pitying womanhood."
2.
Women, collectively; womankind.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Womanhood" Quotes from Famous Books



... spiritual life. From this time forward Francesca avoided all unnecessary conversations, and became habitually silent. There was no moroseness in her silence; it never interfered with the kindnesses or the courtesies of life; but as in childhood she had been remarkable for it, so in womanhood it distinguished her, and especially since her illness and miraculous recovery. Vannozza inquired of her one day what it was that made her so habitually silent, and she answered, "God expects more of us than ...
— The Life of St. Frances of Rome, and Others • Georgiana Fullerton
... current legislation along these lines. I, too, rejoice that an awakened conscience has outlawed commercial standards that were false or low and that an awakened humanity has decreed that the working and living condition of our citizens must be worthy of true manhood and true womanhood. ...
— Have faith in Massachusetts; 2d ed. - A Collection of Speeches and Messages • Calvin Coolidge
... respectability and power of the family, and the beauty and behavior of the girl. The arrangements here described are often made when the girl is only five or six years of age, in which case she remains with her friends until womanhood, and then goes to the house of ...
— Journal of an African Cruiser • Horatio Bridge
... womanhood is under shameful tyranny in the shops and mills. I want to destroy this tyranny. They (the Feminists) want to destroy womanhood.' They do this by attempting to drive women into the world and turn them away from the home. This is what is wrong with the woman's world: ...
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Patrick Braybrooke
... Conflicting and confusing emotions, a sense of outrage and revolt, were making me first hot and then cold, and distrust and suspicion and baffling helplessness were enveloping me beyond resistance. The happy ignorance and unconcern and indifference of my girlhood, my young womanhood, were vanishing before cruel and compelling verities, and that which, because of its ugliness, its offensiveness, its repulsiveness, I had wanted to know nothing about, I knew I would now be ...
— People Like That • Kate Langley Bosher


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