Definition of Womanishness. Meaning of Womanishness. Synonyms of Womanishness

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Definition of Womanishness

Womanishness
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 Womanishness 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- expression of mothers to female children, 'You acting womanish', referring to grown-up behavior. The womanish girl exhibits willful, courageous, and outrageous...
- 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...
- 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...
- ("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...
- "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...