Definitions

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  • noun The state or condition of being unwomanly.

Etymologies

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unwomanly +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • Or did there lurk in her the insidious unhealthfulness of unwomanliness?

    Chapter 9 2010

  • Beyond this lies the fact that womanliness is opposed to mannishness, and that unwomanliness grows faster than its virtuous opposite.

    Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out Annie H Ryder

  • Would that there might be less of this unwomanliness!

    Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out Annie H Ryder

  • We have been disgusted with Juliet, out of all patience with her levity and unwomanliness, but we sympathize in her unutterable grief.

    Hubert's Wife A Story for You Minnie Mary Lee

  • Helen's reputed coldness of heart lay intense feeling, and on numerous occasions she had verged on unwomanliness in baring her moods to Wade, in a way that many other men would have been quicker to fathom, and perhaps to take advantage of, than he had been.

    Hidden Gold Wilder Anthony

  • All the littlenesses in the social customs of girls; all their raw, untrained, ungenerous acts, their indulgences, their prejudices, are the weak and despised signs of unwomanliness.

    Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out Annie H Ryder

  • In nine cases out of ten there is a great wrong or a great grief at the bottom of all her unwomanliness -- perhaps both; and if she shrieks you may be sure that she is suffering; ease her pain, and she will be quiet enough.

    Ideala Sarah Grand

  • In her voice was some shocking quality of unwomanliness, some lack of pride, and reserve, and courage.

    Saturday's Child Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

  • Or did there lurk in her the insidious unhealthfulness of unwomanliness?

    As Between A Man and A Woman 1911

  • In that and his speechless delight she read his estimate of her appearance; and, notwithstanding the unwomanliness of her costume, and the fact of his notorious character, she knew she had never received so great a compliment.

    The Border Legion Zane Grey 1905

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