maidenly
adjective
pertaining to, characteristic of, or befitting a maiden.
maidenliness
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a word derived from
maidenly.
Example Sentences
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For there is a maidenliness in sorrow, that wraps her garments close around her.—But he was not to be seen; the door of the study was locked.
From Adela Cathcart, Volume 3 by George MacDonald
Was it maidenliness in the waning woman of five-and-forty?
From Robert Falconer by George MacDonald
Oh, if it were only possible to own her wrongs, and ask his pardon without a compromise of maidenliness!
From The Trial by Charlotte Mary Yonge
She retreated as young ladies should ever do, two or three steps, and he would not notice that she had become an angry Dian, all arrows: her maidenliness in surrendering pleased him.
From The Egoist by George Meredith
She sat up straight, by force of her instinctive maidenliness, but she kissed him back when he kissed her.
From The Copy-Cat and Other Stories by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
