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Womanly

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Adjective

1. feminine, womanly

befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman

Example Sentences:
'womanly virtues of gentleness and compassion'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Womanly

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adjective
1. 
possessing qualities, such as warmth, attractiveness, etc, generally regarded as typical of a woman, esp a mature woman
2. 
characteristic of or belonging to a woman

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Womanly

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adjective
1. 
like a woman; womanish
2. 
characteristic of or fit for a woman; womanlike
adverb
3.  Archaic
in a womanly manner

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Womanly

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adj. wom·an·li·er, wom·an·li·est
1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of women, often in showing qualities traditionally attributed to women: "Feminism had ... held out a promise that there would be some precincts of womanly life that were not all about men" (Maureen Dowd).
2. Fully developed as a woman, as in having a curvaceous figure: "I watch the way she sleeps, rolled onto her side, too womanly for the slender child's bed" (Alexandra Fuller).

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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