Maidenliness

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The quality of being maidenly; behavior that becomes a maid; modesty; gentleness.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The quality of being maidenly; the behavior that becomes a maid; modesty; gentleness.
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  • noun. The state or condition of being maidenly.
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  • noun. behavior befitting a young maiden
    • Word Usage
    "I do not exactly know why, but it is like you, to me you have the same maidenliness - and the sun is laughing, and the fjord out there is glittering, and existence is beauty!..."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    unmaidenliness  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    femininity  muliebrity  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    gentleness  modesty  
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