As such it was common to hear praise of womanly virtues as though they were divine.

I am sure that she could not measure up to Penelope in womanly virtues.

By inventing a virus that eliminates men, she can celebrate womanly virtues on a planetary scale.

Burke, Wollstonecraft maintains, describes womanly virtue as weakness, thus leaving women no substantive roles in the public sphere and relegating them to uselessness.

These precepts were: womanly virtue, womanly speech, womanly manner, and womanly merit.

This does not sound like much of a catalog of womanly virtues," I said, puffing a bit as I strained to wriggle out from under him.

A carefully devised syllabus laid stress on womanly virtues and accomplishments.

Partly this comes from having a mother who believed that a self-cleaned house was the hallmark of womanly virtue.

She is esteemed as a standard-setter for wifely and womanly virtues for all Hindu women.

The values that She enshrined and adhered to at every point in the course of a demanding life are the values of womanly virtue held sacred by countless generations of Indians.