womanfully
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of womanfully
1815–25; woman + (man)fully ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Vira Slywotzky was a suitably musicianly and intensely sympathetic Composer, and Megan Hart coped womanfully with Zerbinetta's near-impossible stratospherics.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 2, 2010
Hot tears are an apt response: the two most innocent characters die; the others grieve and carry on womanfully.
From Time Magazine Archive
You may be sure that Jessie handles it womanfully, and that Carll shows up when it is over, wringing his dry hands.
From Time Magazine Archive
This prompting of Satan, however, I womanfully resisted, and merely civilly declined the gratuity; and the gentleman left me with profuse acknowledgments of the service I had rendered them and my "extreme liberality."
From Records of Later Life by Kemble, Fanny
She, however, cheered him womanfully, would not acknowledge her own dismay, and Opie, gloomy and desponding though he was, continued to paint as regularly as before.
From A Book of Sibyls Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen by Ritchie, Anne Thackeray
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