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  • a  befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman
    womanly virtues of gentleness and compassion

  • Rarest of all was the instinctive, trembling vocal style that somehow managed to combine womanly pathos and childish innocence.
  • The Roches' songs, which come out of a very particular and womanly conscience, are feminist after the fact.
  • Greeks, mythological, ancient and modern, have long been the arbiters of womanly beauty, but their local queens have an uncertain record.
Quotes

  • Elizabeth Gilbert in National Post
    It's an incredibly moving testament to womanly love -- not only to 'sisterhood' in some sort of political sense, but also motherhood, daughterhood, neighbourliness -- as the women behind bars carefully recreate all those relationships,wrote...
  • Zahi Hawass in Independent Online
    Akhenaten had been portrayed with some deformities, and some thought he had womanly traits and that he had been homosexual. We discovered that he was a completely normal man,Dr Hawass said.
  • Gwyneth Paltrow in Luxist (blog)
    Italian style is very sexy, very womanly and what I love is that it seems to have so many different inspirations,Paltrow told the mag.

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