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Womanly, -ie, adj. Also: wommanly, wemenlie, womenlie. [ME and e.m.E. wummonlich (Ancr. R.), wom(m)anly (both Chaucer).] Like a woman, having the characteristics of or purported to be of a woman.(a) 1456 Hay II 96/17.
Lechery … engenderis in a man wommanly condiciounis, and inclynaciounis femynyne, and feblis the strenthis 1494 Loutfut MS 130b.
To tak heid that thai may suffir neidfull thingis for the body in tyme of weris & nocht to be soft & womanly c1500-c1512 Dunb. Tua Mar. W. 321.
Ay my will wes the war of womanly natur c1500-c1512 Dunb. (OUP) 39/28.
Quhair is ȝour womanlie petie? c1550 Rolland Ct. Venus iv 127.
Thisbe … On humill wayis and maneris womanlie 1558-66 Knox I 459.
Of invy more then womanlie lawchtter, sche asked [etc.](b) a1538 Abell 119b.
Honeste & wemenlie scham(c) a1538 Abell 81a.
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