How do you use the word "womanhood" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "womanhood" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "womanhood": She is now in the prime of womanhood. He pressed his turgid sex against the center of her womanhood.

Womanhood Meaning

/ˈwʊmənhʊd/

Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounThe state or condition of being a woman, as contrasted with being a girl, man, boy, or nonbinary.

nounThe state or condition of being a woman.

Sentence Examples

She is now in the prime of womanhood.

He pressed his turgid sex against the center of her womanhood.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

woman

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

Her passage from girlhood to ____ was marked by a traditional ceremony.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The novel explores the themes of ____ and the many challenges that women face in the modern and busy world today.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English womanhoode, wommanhod, whomanhode, variants of wommanhede. By surface analysis, woman + -hood.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

""I swear, even in this most holy hour of completed Womanhood, that I will abandon Evil and cherish Good."" — 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

"There was only one thing to be done: call out, start the alarm, set the heather on fire! Awaken the womanhood of America to free the motherhood of the world!" — 1913, Rachel Galvin, quoting Margaret Sanger, “Margaret Sanger's "Deeds of Terrible Virtue"”, in Humanities, volume 19, number 5, National Endowment for the Humanities, published 1988, archived from the original on 05 Jan 2017:

"[…]the white women, several of whom had been watching the massacre of the Negro men, pounced on the Negress. I do not wish to be understood as saying that these women were representatives of the womanhood of East St. Louis. Their faces showed, all too plainly, exactly who and what they were." — 1917, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, quoting Carlos F. Hurd, chapter II, in [Untitled, From the St. Louis Post Dispatch], July 3rd, 1917, quoted in The East St. Louis Massacre: The Greatest Outrage of the Century, retrieved 19 Nov 2020, page 12:

"What hast thou done, / O womanhood of France, / Mother and daughter, sister, sweetheart, wife, / What hast thou done, amid this fateful strife. // To prove the pride of thine inheritance / In this fair land of freedom and romance?" — 1920 [1909], Henry Van Dyke, “The Red Flower and Golden Stars”, in The Poems of Henry Van Dyke, new and revised edition, dated to 1914–1916, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, Jeanne d’Arc Returns, page 384, lines 1–5:

"What was once a multi-million-dollar fantasy of womanhood – exclusively svelte, athletic models in lace-trimmed thongs or diamante push-up bras, each framed by a pair of 12-foot-high angel wings – quickly became a parody so gauche it’s hard to imagine it was ever taken seriously." — 2022 July 25, Leah Dolan, “New documentary unearths troubling links between Victoria’s Secret and Jeffrey Epstein”, in CNN, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2022:

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