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Examples of womanhood in a Sentence
a young girl on the verge of womanhood
What is your view of womanhood?
The book is a celebration of womanhood.
Recent Examples of womanhood from the Web
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Her most recent album, A Seat at the Table, was praised for its reflections on black womanhood in modern America.
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Duval purposefully misgendered me (as the hosts laugh, thereby cosigning) in an attempt to put me in my place and erase my womanhood.
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The themes reveal themselves through repetition: time, memory, identity, womanhood, youth, patriotism.
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Point of view rotates among a cluster of girls on the verge of womanhood as the fierce, red-haired Janey enlists a crew of rebels.
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There’s nothing unique or significant about womanhood.
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A Nühanzi is one who is able to act effectively in the world by acting confidently (like a man) but retaining her womanhood.
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Both works swim around in the vernacular of black womanhood, exploring how the black female identity is formed and expressed under surveillance.
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The rest of the book both expands and makes exact the roots of memory, madness and womanhood implied here.
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First Known Use of womanhood
15th century
womanhood Synonyms
Synonyms
femaleness, feminity, muliebrity, femininity, womanishness, womanlinessAntonyms
manhood, manliness, masculinity, virilityRelated Words
girlishness; effeminacy, effeteness; girlhood, maidenhoodNear Antonyms
androgyny; boyishness, mannishness, tomboyishnessWOMANHOOD Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of womanhood for English Language Learners
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: the state or condition of being an adult woman and no longer a girl
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: women in general
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