womanliness

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I think Womanliness means only motherhood; All love begins and ends there,—roams enough, But, having run the circle, rests at home.

From Robert Browning by Dowden, Edward

The simple fact is that Womanliness is the supreme attraction, in however fair or however frail a personality it is embodied.

From Hints for Lovers by Haultain, T. Arnold (Theodore Arnold)

Womanliness, above all, and sympathy, poets ascribe to their mothers.

From The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years by Atkins, Elizabeth

Womanliness is not primness, let me be understood.

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

Given Beauty for our standard and first goal, Goodness, Mercy, Courage, Manliness, and Womanliness, and good looks, would surely follow, and the Creator might be trusted for the rest.

From From Edinburgh to India & Burmah by Burn Murdoch, W. G. (William Gordon)