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womanfully

womanfully adverb: in a womanly manner.

Adverb

womanfully (comparative more womanfully, superlative most womanfully)

  1. In a womanly manner.
    • She manfully struggled on, however — womanfully would perhaps be a stronger and more appropriate word. She had to calculate not only how to play her own hand correctly, but she had to calculate on her partner's probable errors.1859, Anthony Trollope, The Bertrams, page 264

Forms of womanfully

comparativemore womanfully
superlativemost womanfully

Origin of womanfully

From womanful + -ly. Early 19th c., after manfully.

Questions about womanfully

What does womanfully mean?
Womanfully means in a womanly manner.
What part of speech is womanfully?
Womanfully is an adverb.

Words near womanfully in the dictionary

  1. womanflesh
  2. womanfolk
  3. womanfriend
  4. womanfriends
  5. womanful
  6. womanfully
  7. womanhandle
  8. womanhandled
  9. womanhandles
  10. womanhandling
  11. womanhater

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