单词 | old-womanliness |
释义 | old-womanlinessn. = 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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