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Definition of Womanish

Womanish
Womanish Wom"an*ish, a. Suitable to a woman, having the qualities of a woman; effeminate; not becoming a man; -- usually in a reproachful sense. See the Note under Effeminate. `` Thy tears are womanish.' --Shak. `` Womanish entreaties.' --Macaulay. A voice not soft, weak, piping, and womanish, but audible, strong, and manlike. --Ascham. -- Wom"an*ish*ly, adv. -- Wom"an*ish*ness, n.

Meaning of Womanish from wikipedia

- Haec-Vir: or, the Womanish-Man was a pamphlet published in 1620 in England in response to the pamphlet Hic Mulier. Where Hic Mulier argued against cross-dressing...
- expression of mothers to female children, 'You acting womanish', referring to grown-up behavior. The womanish girl exhibits willful, courageous, and outrageous...
- detailed prophetic program of the life of the church from her own days of "womanish weakness" through to the coming and ultimate downfall of the Antichrist...
- intermediary between sea and sky, they honor it through priests who have womanish voices." The galli may also have occupied a "third gender" in Roman society...
- Uppsala in the period of sacrifices, he had become disgusted with the womanish body movements, the clatter of actors on the stage and the soft tinkling...
- optimistic, and by the second decade of the 21st century girlish and old womanish at the same time. She survives and she bubbles, both. Malina met her long-time...
- night, witnesses Raghava wearing her bangles and eventually exposes his womanish acts to Prasad, and the family confronts him. Then, the family discovers...
- "unmanliness and kinaidiā" and frequently commented on his "unmanly and womanish temper", even criticising his clothing: "If anyone took those dainty little...
- do****entary film on the women's suffrage movement in The Bahamas, entitled Womanish Ways: Freedom, Human Rights & Democracy 1934 to 1962, which received the...
- Athenaeus, Callixena was emplo**** by Olympias out of fear that Alexander was "womanish" (γύvνις), and his mother used to beg him to sleep with the courtesan,...