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Womanlines, Womanlynes, n. [e.m.E. womanlynesse (1538).] a. The quality of being womanly or possessing the nature or qualities of a woman. b. Effeminacy. —a. 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. 1160.
The ladyis fair [etc.] … Thair womanlines [L. womanlynes] wryithit the elementis, Stoneist the heuin [etc.]
b. 1596 Dalr. I 214/16.
The thinges, quhilkes, throuch the negligence of King Constantine, and his womanlines, war ouirthrawne

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