Ladiness

Quick meaning: Ladiness is a noun meaning The quality of being a lady.

Meaning

The quality of being a lady.

Example Sentences

“Ladiness” is grounded in a rather rigid code of behavior that varies only slightly according to ethnic or cultural values.

Two, Mother and aunt Wheezie were equally as passionate that I should become a lady. Becoming a lady was such hard work I hated it. I couldn’t fathom why any girl would want to be one. Furthermore, I clearly understood at the ripe old age of eight that Mother and Wheezie often strayed from the path of ladiness.

Mother believed round garters cut off the circulation and caused varicose veins, so she kept me in a pantywaist several years longer than most boys. Nobody knew this except me and Mother, and I was particularly careful to keep it a secret because there was a touch of ladiness to a waist after a boy got about so big.

Word Forms

• ladyness

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ladyness, ladyhood, gentlewomanliness, daughterliness, gentlewomanhood, girlishness.

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