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noun.
women as a class
noun.
the status of a woman
noun.
the state of being an adult woman
Word Usage
"Not to woman's skillful hands; not to her ready brain; not to the things of her womanhood upon which the world into which she goes alone to labor puts a price has the Master of Life committed this supreme thing; but to her _womanhood_ -- her sex."