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1634.  Bp. Hall, Contempl., N. T., IV. iv. [These] wanton gesticulations of a virgin … could be no other than riggish and unmaidenly.

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1823.  Scott, F. M. Perth, xxv. Such tokens of intimacy … are uncomely and unmaidenly.

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1848.  Mrs. Gaskell, Mary Barton, xv. The whisperings of her womanly nature … caused her to shrink from any unmaidenly action.

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1866.  G. Macdonald, Ann. Q. Neighb., xxxii. At least do not put your character in question by going in this unmaidenly fashion.

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  Hence Unmaidenliness.

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1874.  Fortn. Rev., Feb., 239. What the poet thinks of the unmaidenliness of Lynette.

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1879.  Meredith, Egoist, xxi. You, father! you have driven me to unmaidenliness.

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