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womanishly, adv.|ˈwʊmənɪʃlɪ|
[f. womanish a. + -ly2.]
In a womanish manner or style.
1573Baret Alv. W 319 Womannishly, faintly, fearfully, muliebriter. 1579Twyne Phis. agst. Fortune ii. lxvi. 242 When as she womanishly lamented that he should die an innocent. 1665R. Brathwait Comm. Two Tales (1901) 13 To have his hair curled, and so womanishly disheveled. 1731G. Jeffreys Merope i. i. 2 Are we sunk so womanishly low, That we can only mourn, and rail, and pray? a1845T. O. Davis Life Curran (1846) 69 They had..the same impassionate, womanishly sensitive hearts. 1860Sir T. Martin Horace i. xxxvii. 65 A woman, yet not womanishly weak.
So womanishness |ˈwʊmənɪʃnɪs|, the quality or state of being womanish.
1545R. Ascham Toxoph. i. (Arb.) 41 The minstrelsie of lutes..is farre more fitte for the womannishnesse of it to dwell in the courte among ladies. 1579–80North Plutarch, Theseus & Romulus (1595) 43 That his womanishenes was rather to satisfie lust, then of any great loue. 1607Markham Cavel. i. 25 Such as out of their flemye womanishnesse seeke for such secrets. 1664H. More Exp. 7 Epist. Pref. c vj b, The more-then-ordinary Womanishness of the Church of Rome in that Intervall. 1858Househ. Words XVIII. 414/1 There was no nonsense about Katie; no silly affectation of boyishness, no still sillier affectation of premature womanishness. 1860Sat. Rev. 7 Jan. 12/2 The clergyman's acquired womanishness. 1883J. Hawthorne Dust I. 207 A certain softness or womanishness in his nature, which his masculine taste condemned. |