womanhood
IPA: wˈʊmʌnhʊd
noun
- The state or condition of being a woman.
- All of the women of a given place, area, or subgroup regarded collectively.
- The idealized nature of a woman: all of the characteristics traditionally and ideally ascribed to womanliness regarded collectively.
- The self-concept of a woman with respect to her possession of the various qualities traditionally and ideally ascribed to womanliness; a woman's sense or view of herself as being more or less womanly.
- (euphemistic) The female genitalia, especially the vulva.
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Examples of "womanhood" in Sentences
- Pearls are the symbol of womanhood.
- Toward a biblical theology of womanhood.
- Each woman represents an aspect of womanhood.
- The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood.
- Muliebrity is not quite the same thing as womanhood.
- But there is nothing specific to 'womanhood' in that.
- There were issues as to the acceptable definition of womanhood.
- Also the chairman of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood.
- It tries to delimit her within the conventional notion of womanhood.
- The words 'ideal womanhood' and 'perfect womanhood' appear in many many pages.
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