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Definition of Womanishly

Womanishly
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 Womanishly 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...
- half-naked androgynous youth: the literature describes him as womanly or "man-womanish". In its fully developed form, his central cult imagery shows his triumphant...
- the slaughtering of animals is founded rather on vain superstition and womanish pity than on sound reason. The rational quest of what is useful to us further...
- 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...
- living was, we may say, like a plant that he had watered and tended with womanish solicitude; for there is apt to be something unmanly, something almost...
- night, witnesses Raghava wearing her bangles and eventually exposes his womanish acts to Prasad, and the family confronts him. Then, the family discovers...
- simplicity, apart from modern society, to be a mark of effeminacy, calling it "womanish solicitude; for there is something unmanly, something almost dastardly"...
- disastrous opening night, his friend Aleksey Suvorin chided him for being "womanish" and accused him of being in "a funk." Chekhov vigorously denied this,...
- ("successful ambition in women [i.e., "women holding office"] makes them more womanish in the sense of representing women's views"). Mansfield (2006), p. 50 ("our...
- astronaut Deke Slayton was less diplomatic, calling See's piloting skills "old-womanish." Others, including Neil Armstrong, who had worked with See on the backup...