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单词 maidenliness
释义 maidenliness|ˈmeɪd(ə)nlɪnɪs|
[f. maidenly + -ness.]
The quality of being maidenly; the behaviour proper to a maiden.
1555W. Watreman Fardle Facions App. 326 Any man of a shamefaced maindenlines [sic].1583Babington Commaundm. (1615) 42 Silence is ignorance, modesty is too much maidenlinesse.1617Rider's Dict., Virginalitas, Maidenlinesse.1868Pusey Serm. Pharisaism 13 Those who used to furnish our ideal of maidenliness and purity.1879G. Meredith Egoist I. x. 193 That fair childish maidenliness had ceased.
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