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Maidenliness   Listen
noun
Maidenliness  n.  The quality of being maidenly; the behavior that becomes a maid; modesty; gentleness.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Maidenliness" Quotes from Famous Books



... longer respected or trusted her. Yet, little by little, during their last separation, his belief in her, and his respect for her, had grown in her estimation, because they alone still connected her with the maidenliness and feminine refinement in which she had grown up. Lushington had broken a ...
— The Primadonna • F. Marion Crawford

... presenting herself as a servant. He greeted her with high geniality and bade her come in and sit down and make herself comfortable. There was something which might have touched the springs both of mirth and of melancholy in the ancient maidenliness with which Mrs. Bread endeavored to comply with these directions. She was not playing at being fluttered, which would have been simply ridiculous; she was doing her best to carry herself as a person so humble that, for her, even embarrassment would have been ...
— The American • Henry James

... near it; the room into which he gazed, full of bric-a-brac of exquisite choice, was Mlle. Moriaz's study. There was in the appearance of this little sanctuary, hung with white silken drapery, and as elegant as the divinity whose favourite tarrying-place it was, something of purity, chastity, and maidenliness. It opened its windows to the fresh breezes and to the perfume of the flowers; but it seemed as if nothing could penetrate there that was coarse or suspicious; that the entrance was forbidden to all doubtful or malignant beings who ...
— Samuel Brohl & Company • Victor Cherbuliez



Words linked to "Maidenliness" :   maidenly, muliebrity



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