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womanlike, a. and adv.|ˈwʊmənlaɪk|
[f. woman n. + -like.]
A. adj. Like, resembling, or characteristic of a woman or women; in derogatory use, womanish, effeminate.
c1440Promp. Parv. 154/2 Femynyne, or woman lyke, muliebris. 1550Crowley Way to Wealth 315 Fingered ladies, whose womanlike behauiour..ought to be a lighte to al women. 1561T. Norton tr. Calvin's Inst. iv. xix. 156 b, Clerkes were commaunded..to sheare their head..that they should not beare any shewe of womanlyke trimming. 1597Drayton Heroical Ep., Isab. to Mortimer Notes 20 b, His behauiour and attire euer so womanlike, to please the eye of his lasciuious Prince. 1624Capt. J. Smith Virginia 31 Scorning to be seene in any woman-like exercise. 1647Hexham i, Womanlike, delicate and tender. 1825Scott Talism. xiv, Ashamed at being surprised in a womanlike expression of sorrow, Sir Kenneth dashed his tears indignantly aside. 1878Contemp. Rev. Feb. 521 Trees were credited with woman-like inhabitants capable of doing good and ill. 1880L. Wallace Ben-Hur 516 The tearful woman⁓like face of the Christ.
B. adv. In a manner characteristic of women; after the fashion of women; like a woman.
c1440Alphabet of Tales 365 Sho was not ferd for swerd nor wownd, nor wepid wommanlyke. 1556T. Phaer æneid. iv. (1558) I iv b, This pranking Paris fyne..With grekishe wymple pynkyd, womanlyke. 1635Life Long Meg of Westm. (1872) 43 She..dressed him full womanlike. 1743Francis tr. Hor., Odes i. xxxvii. 28 But she a nobler fate explored, Nor woman-like beheld the deathful sword. 1857W. Collins Dead Secret v. iv. (1861) 221 ‘Of course’, cried Rosamond, looking, womanlike, straight on to the purpose she had in view. 1898‘H. S. Merriman’ Roden's Corner xxix. 303 He would not, it appeared, sit down without her permission. And, womanlike, she gave it. |