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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.

• feminine

• unwomanly

News & Articles

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• Tony Awards: Scarlett Johansson hides her famous curves in little black dress
  She’s envied for her womanly figure, but a noticeably slimmed-down Scarlett Johansson appeared to be a world away from her formerly curvaceous self at...
  June 10, 2013 - New York Post

Quotes

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• 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.