Word Meanings - WOMANIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To make like a woman; to make effeminate. V. Knox.
Related words: (words related to WOMANIZE)
- WOMANLY
Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior. Arbuthnot. A blushing, womanly discovering grace. Donne. - EFFEMINATE
1. Having some characteristic of a woman, as delicacy, luxuriousness, etc.; soft or delicate to an unmanly degree; womanish; weak. The king, by his voluptuous life and mean marriage, became effeminate, and less sensible of honor. Bacon. - WOMANHEAD; WOMANHEDE
Womanhood. Chaucer. - 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. - 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. - WOMANIZE
To make like a woman; to make effeminate. V. Knox. - WOMANLIKE
Like a woman; womanly. Womanlike, taking revenge too deep. Tennyson. - WOMANLESS
Without a woman or women. - WOMAN
1. To act the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it. Daniel. 2. To make effeminate or womanish. Shak. 3. To furnish with, or unite to, a woman. "To have him see me woman'd." Shak. - WOMANKIND
The females of the human race; women, collectively. A sanctuary into which womankind, with her tools of magic, the broom and mop, has very infrequent access. Hawthorne. - EFFEMINATELY
1. In an effeminate or womanish manner; weakly; softly; delicately. "Proud and effeminately gay." Fawkes. 2. By means of a woman; by the power or art of a woman. "Effeminately vanquished." Milton. - WOMANLINESS
The quality or state of being womanly. There is nothing wherein their womanliness is more honestly garnished than with silence. Udall. - EFFEMINATENESS
The state of being effeminate; unmanly softness. Fuller. - WOMANISH
Suitable to a woman, having the qualities of a woman; effeminate; not becoming a man; -- usually in a reproachful sense. See the Note under Effeminate. " Thy tears are womanish." Shak. " Womanish entreaties." Macaulay. A voice not soft, - 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 - 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. - HERDSWOMAN
A woman who tends a herd. Sir W. Scott. - SALESWOMAN
A woman whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise. - STATESWOMAN
A woman concerned in public affairs. A rare stateswoman; I admire her bearing. B. Jonson. - CHARWOMAN
A woman hired for odd work or for single days. - TIRE-WOMAN
1. A lady's maid. Fashionableness of the tire-woman's making. Locke. 2. A dresser in a theater. Simmonds. - BOATWOMAN
A woman who manages a boat. - BONDWOMAN
A woman who is a slave, or in bondage. He who was of the bondwoman. Gal. iv. 23. - KINSWOMAN
A female relative. Shak.