womanlike

[ woom-uhn-lahyk ]

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adjective

like a woman; womanly.

Origin of womanlike

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First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English; see origin at woman, -like

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Other words from womanlike

un·wom·an·like, adjective

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How to use womanlike in a sentence

womanlike, she felt certain that the other girl was not good enough for David.
Patchwork | Anna Balmer Myers
womanlike, she tried to pay part of it by urging him to do something he considered impossible.
Operation Terror | William Fitzgerald Jenkins
womanlike, she turned to King in that minute and confided to him her very inmost thoughts.
King--of the Khyber Rifles | Talbot Mundy
Lady Laura had not a word more to say about Phineas to her father; but, womanlike, she resolved that she would not abandon him.
Phineas Finn | Anthony Trollope
womanlike, Doris Rives was thinking particularly rather than generally and of humans rather than abstractions.
Day of the Moron | Henry Beam Piper

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