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单词 old-womanliness
释义

old-womanlinessn.

Brit. /ˌəʊl(d)ˈwʊmənlɪnᵻs/, U.S. /ˌoʊl(d)ˈwʊmənlinᵻs/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: old-womanly adj., -ness suffix.
Etymology: < old-womanly adj. + -ness suffix.
= old-womanishness n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > person > old person > old woman > [noun] > state of being
anility1623
beldamship1633
anileness1727
tabbyhood1797
old-wifery1827
old womanism1828
old-womanry1828
old-womanliness1877
old-ladyhood1888
old-womanishness1914
1877 Sunday Mag. 53 [Girls] go about their business with an air of old-womanliness and selfpossession.
1960 J. Baines Joseph Conrad ix. 257 This lack of imagination and experience, together with a contempt for anything that smacked of old-womanliness..led him to do a very stupid thing.
2001 SF Weekly (Nexis) 29 Aug. She does the Nurse as a standard clown,..leaving out, in the process, an element of doting old-womanliness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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