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Maidenliness

noun
1.
Behavior befitting a young maiden.





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"Maidenliness" Quotes from Famous Books



... commercial shall not hinder the business of even the least distinguished customer. The other customer had the effect of causing Constance to pop up from her cloistral corner. Constance had been there all the time, but of course, though she heard the remembered voice, her maidenliness had not permitted that she should ...
— The Old Wives' Tale • Arnold Bennett
... might be fine to help a great painter like you," confessed the gentle lass; very gently, with reluctance and pain, for it was wrung by compulsion from her maidenliness. ...
— Girlhood and Womanhood - The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes • Sarah Tytler
... no reply. Far within she was conscious of a kind of tremor. The personality beside her seemed to be laying an intimate, encroaching hand upon her own, and her maidenliness ...
— Eleanor • Mrs. Humphry Ward


Words linked to "Maidenliness" :   femininity, muliebrity, maidenly


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