0 Womanly qualities, ideas, or physical features are ones that a woman is typically or traditionally thought to have:
1 having qualities thought typical of a woman
Even at the moment of death she gestures upward to direct lustful minds to higher transcendent truths, fulfilling her womanly role as spiritual guide.
This so angered her that she threw aside her comb and immediately abandoned womanly pursuits.
To so violate the terms of the nurturing, self-sacrificing womanly ideal would make her monstrous.
On the other, a woman's role within marriage was an ideal of womanly modesty, deference and obedience to her husband.
She represents the embodiment of the ' ' womanly woman, ' ' the perfect product of the state she is named after.
What slurs remained sometimes centered upon clothing, with the petticoat making a reappearance as a symbol of womanly women and cowardly men.
That they should call on the language of true womanly duty is hardly surprising.
What they lack in physical strength they endeavour to compensate by other equally important, yet softer, womanly qualities.
