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n. - The trait of being characteristic of an adult female human being

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  • As has already been suggested, her womanliness is a more prominent characteristic of Mrs. Lewes's mind than its great intellectual power.
  • Lorraine was a woman of the world, with a larger mixture of the other kind of womanliness, perhaps, than was usual, and he in his perspicacity had deftly appealed to both.
  • What can there be more beautiful than womanliness!
  • Germanic races to be the realization of the ideal of womanliness.
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