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Definition of Girlishness
1. Noun. Being characteristic of a girl.
Definition of Girlishness
1. Noun. The quality of being girlish ¹
2. Noun. Girlish behaviour ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Girlishness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Girlishness
Literary usage of Girlishness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Studies of the Greek Poets by John Addington Symonds (1902)
"... Marlowe and Goethe — Penelope — Her Home - love— Calypso and the Isle of
Ogygia—Circe—The Homeric and the Modern Circe—Nausicaa—Her Perfect girlishness— ..."
2. The Real Shelley: New Views of the Poet's Life by John Cordy Jeaffreson (1885)
"... is to remember the girlishness of Byron's early attachments, as well as the
girlishness of his affectionate care for his Harrow 'favourites. ..."
3. An Analytical Dictionary of the English Language, in which the Words are by David Booth (1836)
"PUERILE and PUERILITY, from the Latin puer, do not specify the sex, and thus
differ from Boyish and Boyishness, Girlish and girlishness. ..."
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