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womanlily

womanlily adverb: in a womanly manner.

Adverb

womanlily (comparative more womanlily, superlative most womanlily)

  1. (rare) In a womanly manner.
    • And if thy wiues ſoule were freed from the frailty of her ſexe, it were as manly, as noble, as vnderſtanding, and euery way as excellent as thine owne: Nay, and if it were poſſible for you to change bodies; hers would worke as manlily in thine, and thine as womanlily in hers. Let the husband then...1624, Robert Bolton, Some Generall Directions for a Comfortable Walking with God: […], London: […] Felix Kyngston, for Edmund Weauer, […], →OCLC, pages 245–246
    • Among the thousands of immigrants crowding our shores the Mormons hold their own manfully or womanlily, rather. These poor creatures come from the most ignorant and degraded society of Europe, and have no concept of the life they are to be inducted into when they reach Utah.1882 July 15, Sterling Gazette, volume XXVIII, number 28, Sterling, Ill., →OCLC, page [4], column 1
    Synonyms:
    womanly

Examples of womanlily in a sentence

  • They would not write so naturally and charmingly (why cannot we say womanlily?) as most of them do, if they kept sklenting at the male persuasion over their pens.[1884 August 23, “In the Hebrides. By C[onstance] F[rederica] Evelyn Cumming. […]”, in The Otago Daily Times, number 7027, Dunedin, →ISSN...
  • Not unconsciously you blush, but dramatically, obviously, with some effort, womanlily, / Solely intent to show thusly the wilful fever of your virginal mysterious blood.1902 January 11, Frank Morton, “The Blush”, in The Clipper, volume 8, number 458, Hobart, Tas., →OCLC, page 8, column 2:

Synonyms of womanlily

Forms of womanlily

comparativemore womanlily
superlativemost womanlily

Origin of womanlily

From womanly + -ly.

Questions about womanlily

What does womanlily mean?
Womanlily means in a womanly manner.
How do you use womanlily in a sentence?
They would not write so naturally and charmingly (why cannot we say womanlily?) as most of them do, if they kept sklenting at the male persuasion over their pens.
What part of speech is womanlily?
Womanlily is an adverb.

Words near womanlily in the dictionary

  1. womanlessness
  2. womanlier
  3. womanliest
  4. womanlike
  5. womanlikeness
  6. womanlily
  7. womanliness
  8. womanlinesses
  9. womanlover
  10. womanlovers
  11. womanly

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