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  • n  the trait of being womanly; having the characteristics of an adult female

  • With a womanliness that is more maternal than sexual, Hopkins is most convincing when she evokes the fire and flood of up-tempo gospel numbers.
  • In some cultures female aggression in its various manifestations is considered an essential element of womanliness.
  • Fashion's new womanliness has its most passionate and celebrated advocates in two young designers brought in to revivify a pair of Parisian houses famously steeped in the romantic .
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  • Richard J Codey in New Brunswick Home News Tribune
    I never really equated my womanliness with having breasts,said Codey, who would go on to be New Jersey's first lady when her husband served as governor from November 2004 to January 2006, following the resignation of James E. McGreevey.
  • Joanna Trollope in Telegraph.co.uk
    Essential womanliness, that warmth and tenderness and loyalty that makes girls conventionally desirable, was, apparently, something that Ruth had turned her back on, thrown down and stamped on:Trollope writes. "She had acted with all the...
  • Mira Nair in Christian Science Monitor
    I loved it. The skinny, underfed Los Angeles actress is not my look,says Nair. "I liked that womanliness."

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