Word Meanings - HOUSEWIFELY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining or appropriate to a housewife; domestic; economical; prudent. A good sort of woman, ladylike and housewifely. Sir W. Scott.

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• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• HOUSEWIFE
  A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for 3. A hussy. Shak. Sailor's housewife, a ditty-bag. (more info) 1. The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household. Shak. He a good husband, a good
• WOMANLY
  Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior. Arbuthnot. A blushing, womanly discovering grace. Donne.
• DOMESTICATE
  1. To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self. 2. To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word. 3. To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild
• HOUSEWIFELY
  Pertaining or appropriate to a housewife; domestic; economical; prudent. A good sort of woman, ladylike and housewifely. Sir W. Scott.
• WOMANHEAD; WOMANHEDE
  Womanhood. Chaucer.
• PRUDENT
  1. Sagacious in adapting means to ends; circumspect in action, or in determining any line of conduct; practically wise; judicious; careful; discreet; sensible; -- opposed to rash; as, a prudent man; dictated or directed by prudence or
• SCOTTICIZE
  To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish.
• DOMESTICATION
  The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• DOMESTICAL
  A family; a household.
• WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION
  An association of women formed in the United States in 1874, for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive, educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work.
• HOUSEWIFE; HOUSEWIVE
  To manage with skill and economy, as a housewife or other female manager; to economize. Conferred those moneys on the nuns, which since they have well housewived. Fuller.
• DOMESTICANT
  Forming part of the same family. Sir E. Dering.
• LADYLIKENESS
  The quality or state of being ladylike.
• LADYLIKE
  1. Like a lady in appearance or manners; well-bred. She was ladylike, too, after the manner of the feminine gentility of those days. Hawthorne. 2. Becoming or suitable to a lady; as, ladylike manners. "With fingers ladylike." Warner. 3. Delicate;
• DOMESTICALLY
  In a domestic manner; privately; with reference to domestic affairs.
• PRUDENTIAL
  1. Proceeding from, or dictated or characterized by, prudence; prudent; discreet; sometimes, selfish or pecuniary as distinguished from higher motives or influences; as, prudential motives. " A prudential line of conduct." Sir W. Scott.
• PRUDENTIALIST
  One who is governed by, or acts from, prudential motives. Coleridge.
• WOMANHOOD
  1. The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind. Unspotted faith, and comely womanhood. Spenser. Perhaps the smile and the tender tone Came out of her pitying womanhood. Tennyson. 2.
• AIRWOMAN
  A woman who ascends or flies in an aircraft.
• ENGLISHWOMAN
  Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
• UNWOMAN
  To deprive of the qualities of a woman; to unsex. R. Browning.
• NOBLEWOMAN
  A female of noble rank; a peeress.
• BONDSWOMAN
  See BONDWOMAN
• IMPRUDENT
  Not prudent; wanting in prudence or discretion; indiscreet; injudicious; not attentive to consequence; improper. -- Im*pru"dent*ly, adv. Her majesty took a great dislike at the imprudent behavior of many of the ministers and readers. Strype. Syn.
• UNAPPROPRIATE
  1. Inappropriate; unsuitable. 2. Not appropriated. Bp. Warburton.
• APPROPRIATE
  Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words
• NEEDLEWOMAN
  A woman who does needlework; a seamstress.
• DAIRYWOMAN
  A woman who attends to a dairy.
• GENTLEWOMAN
  1. A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar. Bacon. 2. A woman who attends a lady of high rank. Shak.
• JURISPRUDENT
  Understanding law; skilled in jurisprudence. G. West.
• HERDSWOMAN
  A woman who tends a herd. Sir W. Scott.
• SALESWOMAN
  A woman whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise.