The writer says in part, "We shall ever cherish the recollection that old Virginia had a womanhood of whom the people of the nation must be proud.
She is taller, of course, but her figure is as slender and childish as ever: it is only her face in which the earnestness of premature womanhood reveals itself in a grave and sweet serenity very beautiful to contemplate.
That divine and universal pity, that spontaneous and boundless affection, which is the chief loveliness of womanhood and Christianity, had no part in her nature.
Yes; womanhoodwas the something wanted in Olivia Arundel's face.
But this feast of colour has ended, and the world of Turkish womanhood has exchanged the brightness of summer for the sober tints of autumn.
She knew Billy's method of going around a dangerous spot, and her womanhood and daughterhood demanded all.
Her womanhood appeared to have taken on a queenly attribute; but the language of this new womanhoodwas still to learn.
The blazing face of outraged womanhood confronted him, and the accusation brought truth and torment with it.
With the proud young womanhood that remained with the girl like a royal birthright, the knowledge of all that Thornly's renunciation of her help in his art meant brought the warm blood to her cheek and a prayer of gratitude to her lips.
I have never had but one ideal of womanhood that I have cared to bring into my inner life.
The long skirts and new womanhood retarded movement somewhat, but the agile body had not forgotten its cunning.
You sacrificed all that life meant when this girl was a baby, and now when she has come into womanhood you give up your blood for her.
The present mincing horror at free womanhood must pass if we are ever to be rid of the bestiality of free manhood; not by guarding the weak in weakness do we gain strength, but by making weakness free and strong.
But let the murderer be black or the thief brown or the violator of womanhood have a drop of Negro blood, and the righteousness of the indignation sweeps the world.
Such strong, primitive types of Negro womanhood in America seem to some to exhaust its capabilities.
When she reached maturity, all the tender instincts of her womanhood were ruthlessly violated.
All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins.
What do the little bedroom scandals of the flimsy novels matter when the womanhood of Belgium has been despoiled?
She had fought the fiercest battles of her womanhood with her head resting against the ivy-covered pillar.
Could that exquisite flower of young womanhood be the ugly, awkward girl he had married so strangely as a boy?
When she grew into young womanhood Fitzgerald's attentions to her grew still more marked.
Yet in those few moments she had been given a glimpse of the perfection of one of the great mysteries of life, and it made a lasting impression on the soul of the girl who was pushed into womanhood in a single night.
You are a woman--and your womanhood will dictate, will show you the way out.
Answer me, as if before the judgment seat of your truest womanhood and our common humanity.
There are many things which a woman may legitimately admire, and, in a certain sense, envy, yet with which she should never desire to meddle, unless she is ambitious to merge her womanhood in the semblance of man.
In the name of womanhood I repudiate the suggestion of an "underhand way of punishment," being "a real feminine species of torture.
There is dawning womanhood in every line; but she knows nothing of Naxos.
And as adjustment of manhood and womanhood through the larger sex-education becomes more and more abundant and more and more perfected, the sum total of human happiness will increase.
Still others came to love her through mothers who inspired them with reverence for womanhood and motherhood.
It is the kiss, the touch, the senses stirred, that make her, in the glory of her womanhood or in her shame, acknowledge her sex.
And on the part of the ladies of Arthur's court, there was purity and devotion and true womanhood in Elaine and Enid, while Guinevere and Ettarre and Vivien were unchaste and faithless.
Developing Ideals of Love and Marriage Closely associated with high ideals of womanhoodis necessarily a pure understanding of love, even in its physical basis.
It is important that both men and women help by encouraging young men to read good literature that unobtrusively tends to introduce them to the best in womanhood (see Sec.
Many a girl with starvation wages, bad social surroundings, sub-normal mentality, or even intense instincts is able to keep her womanhood because she knows the awful dangers of sexual promiscuity.
Among those who agree heartily with the proposition that by education the young man's attitude towards womanhood (Sec.
The boy gave one last scowl at the little girl, and it was as if he scowled at all womanhoodin her.
You insult my womanhood and doubt my principles by your suspicions; you intimate that I have neither truth, or judgment, or pride.
Look to it that you do not trail your banner of noble womanhood in the dust, at the demand of any editor or syndicate.
I know that a certain order of men in power use that power to lower the ideals and standards of womanhood when they can.
You say you have told the girl you love that you once were foolishly fond of me, and that I helped you to higher ideals of womanhood and life.
Charlotte had nearly come to womanhood at the time when the French Revolution first broke out.
She only felt that her womanhood had been starved and slighted, and that here was a noble-minded lover of whom she could be proud.
As she blossomed intowomanhood there came into her life the love which was to be at once a source of the most profound interest and of the most intense agony.
She was also a keen judge of human motives, for those early years of hers had forced her into a womanhood that was premature but wonderful.
Out of the deep places of her own womanhood a hatred towards this crowd of men arose; that secular enmity which exists between the sexes asserting itself and, for the time being, obscuring both reason and justice.
Against it the vanity inherent in her womanhood rebelled.
Womanhood and its high possibilities of mind and of heart are worthy attainments, even though not crowned with self- elected motherhood.
There had been no exhibition of a self-respecting womanhood which might stand for a higher type of social life than was customary among men.
Out of this doctrine, and that which is akin to it, have sprung all the monasteries and the nunneries of the world, which have disgraced and distorted and demoralized manhood and womanhood for a thousand years.
There was a fascination in the manners and the appearance of a new type of womanhood which they could not resist.
The ideal womanhood portrayed by ancient writers has had by far too much sway.
If Sarah and Rebekah are the types of womanhood the Patriarchs admired, Jacob need not have gone far to find their equal.
Am I not your serene-browed Grecian goddess whose untamed eyes of primeval womanhood proclaim the end of slave marriage?
We will call womanhood from enslavement to form, ceremony and tradition, in which the brute nature of man has bound her, out and up into her larger self, the mate and equal of man.
It means the elevation of woman by the development of her womanly qualities in the direction of their highest possibilities, and by adding to womanhood a new power, a deeper, more far-reaching sympathy, an ineffable glow and a nobler beauty.
Amongst the Tlingit (Thlinkeet) or Kolosh Indians of Alaska, when a girl showed signs of womanhood she used to be confined to a little hut or cage, which was completely blocked up with the exception of a small air-hole.
This permission to break her rule of retirement and appear abroad during an eclipse seems to show how literally the injunction is interpreted which forbids maidens entering on womanhood to look upon the sun.
The flower of womanhood hath bloomed in thee,-- Art thou not changed?
She belongs to the unspoiled womanhood of another age, and is wasted among these dolls and butterflies.
After waiting 8 years, until she had unpetaled into the perfect bloom of Womanhood and he was wearing a Full Beard, he would take her by the Long Glove and lead her off into Dreamland.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "womanhood" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: adulthood; femininity; majority; manhood; maturity; prime; virility; woman; womanhood
