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womanish, a.|ˈwʊmənɪʃ|
[-ish1 2.]
1. Of or belonging to a woman or women; a woman's; used or done by women. Now rare.
1390Gower Conf. I. 58 With so swete a stevene Lik to the melodie of hevene In wommanysshe vois thei singe. 1555Lady Vane in Foxe A. & M. (1563) 1445/1, I..doe prepare..my womanishe backe to their burthens of reproufe. 1610A. Cooke Pope Joan 100 They might haue pretended that they would not be subiect to a womanish and an whorish gouernment. 1624Heywood Gunaik. iii. 130 Spinning, weaving, and the like womanish chares. a1661B. Holyday Juvenal ii. Notes (1673) 25 That this was a Womanish wear may be seen by the same Authors 97. Ep. of his i. L. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. 342 Peplum is properly a womanish Pall or Veil. 1896F. Harrison in 19th Cent. Mar. 501 A separate degree-conferring and exclusively womanish university.
2. Characteristic of or proper to a woman or women; womanly, feminine.
c1374Chaucer Troylus iv. 694 Tho wordes and þo wommannyssh [v.r. womanliche] þynges. 1390Gower Conf. I. 72 Wherof in wommanysshe drede Sche wok and nyste what to rede. Ibid. III. 304 Sche wolde hire goode name kepe For feere of wommanysshe schame. 1513More Rich. III Wks. 46/1 The mothers drede and womannishe feare. a1568R. Ascham Scholem. i. (Arb.) 39 A voice, not softe, weake, piping, womannishe, but audible, stronge, and manlike. 1606G. Woodcock Lives Emperors in Hist. Ivstine K k 4, Her priuat matters she had beene able to gouerne easily by her owne womannish wisedome. 1611Beaum. & Fl. Maid's Trag. i, She has a brother..Like her, a face as womanish as hers. 1706Kennett Hist. Eng. III. 784 He had a particular Averseness to Dancing, and all Womanish Exercises. 1712Addison Spect. No. 363 ⁋9 Eve's Complaint..is wonderfully beautiful: The sentiments..have something in them particularly soft and womanish. 1740Richardson Pamela I. 203 Nothing, said she, but Womanish Curiosity. 1844Kinglake Eothen xvii, To love her [sc. the camel] for the sake of her gentle and womanish ways. 1866Mrs. H. Wood St. Martin's Eve xix, The pale features, regular to a fault, were of almost womanish beauty.
b. In derogatory use.
1390Gower Conf. II. 229 As he which hath himself restreigned..Out of the manere of a man, And tok his wommannysshe chiere. 1532More Confut. Barnes viii. Wks. 760/2 Her questions..wer like to be but friuolous & womannish. 1534― Comf. agst. Trib. ii. vi. (1553) G j, Weping for our sinnes..they reckyn shame almost and womanyshe peuishnes. 1592A. Day Engl. Secretorie ii. (1625) 46 Womanish encountrings, vnseemely lyings and childish threatenings. 1685Dryden Thren. August. viii, So weak, so womanish a woe. 1771Goldsm. Hist. Eng. II. 207 She betrayed neither weakness, nor womanish submission. 1813E. S. Barrett Heroine x. (1909) 57, I do not like..his pencilled eyebrows and curled locks, they look so womanish. 1889Sat. Rev. 6 Apr. 402/2 He must have been under the influence of fears which it would be an excess of flattery to call womanish.
3. Resembling a woman, womanlike: in later use chiefly derogatory; also of a girl, Like a grown woman in her ways.
1390Gower Conf. I. 93 He syh wher sat a creature, A lothly wommannysch figure. c1470Harding Chron. lx. ii, Elyne..was..More Angelyke then womannyshe of hewe. 1604T. Wright Passions v. §2. 167 If musicke can make warriers womanish. 1788Wesley Jrnl. 10 June, This girl..being then between fourteen and fifteen years old. But she was then quite a womanish girl. 1891Farrar Darkn. & Dawn lxv, Lascivious Otho, gluttonous Vitellius, savage Domitian, womanish Elagabalus.
†4. Having a great inclination or liking for women. Obs. rare.
1529More Dyaloge i. xii. 18/1 A freer wylbe womanysh loke the holy horeson neuer so sayntly. 1579–80[implied in womanishness].
5. Comb.
1382Wyclif 1 Kings xv. 12 He took awey the wommannysh maad men [effeminatos] of the loond. a1623Fletcher Love's Cure iii. ii, One so full of childish fear, And womanish-hearted.
Hence † ˈwomanish v. trans., to render womanish, to womanize.
1561T. Hoby tr. Castiglione's Courtyer i. I ij, Men..who ought not with suche delicacies [as music] to womannishe their mindes. a1586Sidney Arcadia i. xii. §5 This effeminate love of a woman, doth so womanish [so ed. 1590; edd. 1593–1674 womanize] a man, that (if he yeeld to it) it will..make him..a launder, a distaff-spinner. |