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1849. Grace Maitland, in Mrs. Oliphant, Marg. Maitland, I. 235. I am half afraid to send it [a note to Claud] by Jessie, lest Mrs. Lennox should hear of it, and renew her accusation of unwomanliness; so, you see, she is teaching me to deceive her.
1855. Rock Island (IL) Argus, 30 March, 2/2. None of these, famous through their unwomanliness and infamy, were illustrations of the glory of their sex—none of these typed American women.
1868. ‘Sarah Tytler,’ Huguenot Family, ix. 103. Without a thought of any unwomanliness in her act, Grand’mère considered it but neighborly to whisper it to Madam Rolle of the rectory.
1882. Society, 4 Nov., 12/2. The heroine … seems to glory in her unwomanliness.
1926. Anne O’Hagan, Awakening of Romola, xxi. 228. She went panoplied against sentimentality, against passion; and yet her armor was not harshness, was not unwomanliness.
