Womanhood
['wʊmənhʊd] or ['wʊmən'hʊd]
Definition
(noun.) the status of a woman.
(noun.) women as a class; 'it's an insult to American womanhood'; 'woman is the glory of creation'; 'the fair sex gathered on the veranda'.
(noun.) the state of being an adult woman.
Inputed by Jill--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind.
(n.) Women, collectively; womankind.
Checker: Melva
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Muliebrity, feminality, femineity.
Edited by Johanna
Examples
- You have all--nay, more than all--those qualities which I have ever regarded as the characteristic excellences of womanhood. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I tried hard to feel that Sir Percival was to blame, and to say so, but my womanhood would pity him, in spite of myself. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in rough scenes and under strange conditions. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Ever since her womanhood almost, had she not been persecuted and undervalued? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- You don't believe in yourself and your own womanhood, so what good is your conceited, shallow cleverness--! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She was beautiful as a new marvellous flower opened at his knees, a paradisal flower she was, beyond womanhood, such a flower of luminousness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She was like a strange unconscious bud of powerful womanhood. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The Greeks had noble conceptions of womanhood in the goddesses Athene and Artemis, and in the heroines Antigone and Andromache. Plato. The Republic.
- The dinginess, the crudity of this average section of womanhood made him feel how highly specialized she was. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Oh waywardness of womanhood! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But that simplicity of hers, holding up an ideal for others in her believing conception of them, was one of the great powers of her womanhood. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Editor: Vicky