Maidenly

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Maidenly \Maid"en*ly\, a.
     Like a maid; suiting a maid; maiden-like; gentle, modest,
     reserved.
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           Must you be blushing ? . . .


           What a maidenly man-at-arms are you become ! --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Maidenly \Maid"en*ly\, adv.
     In a maidenlike manner. "Maidenly demure." --Skelton.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  maidenly
       adj : befitting or characteristic of a maiden; "a maidenly blush"
             [syn: {maidenlike}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  79 Moby Thesaurus words for "maidenly":
     Platonic, abstinent, bachelorlike, beardless, boyish, boylike,
     calflike, callow, celibate, childish, childlike, coltish,
     continent, dewy, distaff, ever-new, evergreen, female, feminine,
     firsthand, fledgling, fresh, gentlewomanlike, girlish, girllike,
     green, gynecic, gynecoid, gynic, husbandless, immature, intact,
     kiddish, kittenish, ladylike, little-girlish, maiden, matronal,
     matronlike, matronly, muliebral, neoteric, nestling, new,
     old-maidish, original, petticoat, pristine, puerile, puplike,
     puppyish, puppylike, raw, sempervirent, single, sole, spinsterish,
     spinsterlike, spinsterly, spouseless, unbeaten, undeveloped,
     unfledged, unhandled, unmarried, untouched, untried, untrodden,
     unused, unwed, unwedded, vernal, vestal, virgin, virginal,
     womanish, womanlike, womanly, young