Maidenly is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MAIDENLY in dictionary:

VERB:
• In a maidenlike manner.
ADJECTIVE:
• in the manner of a maiden
• relating to or appropriate to a maiden; demure
• Like a maid; suiting a maid; maiden-like; gentle, modest, reserved.
• befitting or characteristic of a maiden
• modest
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• of, resembling, or suitable to a maiden

Words related to MAIDENLY

maiden9 maidenliness15 modest9 maidenliest14 maidenlier13

Words that contain MAIDENLY

unmaidenly16

How to use MAIDENLY in a sentence

• He recalled the shy pride and maidenly modesty with which she had met his ardent glances and impassioned words.
• Also, it had seemed good to her maidenly pride that Dr.
• Then the bitter raillery of her father tortured her heart and wounded her in her delicate maidenly sentiments.
• Maidenly reserve! gentlemanly chivalry! always saying no when you meant yes! simple purgatory for shy and sincere souls.
• Nothing but maidenly self-respect prevented her from doing so at once, and the hours seemed very long before dinner.
• I do not object to a girl making herself attractive to men in a modest and maidenly way.
• There was something very maidenly about the appearance of Augustus Clarence Percy Marmaduke Grobble.
• Inside the pavilion is the lovely object of his attack, sitting with a companion, knowing that willy-nilly she must shortly yield yet timidly making show of maidenly reserve.
• But the fair face with its sweet, maidenly expression, the tender blue eyes with their rich poetic depths, the sweet, sensitive lips were ever present.
• When I told her my love, She was maidenly shy, And she bit at her glove.
• She comes to maidenly maturity under the impression which strengthens into belief that madness is her heritage.
• Never before had Dane beheld such a vision of loveliness and maidenly charm.
• Dorinda presents another type of love, so impulsive that it conquers maidenly modesty.
• She asked herself if she were not a prey to some hideous nightmare, and if she should not presently awake in her pretty maidenly chamber at Orcival.
• Some feeling of maidenly reserve had led her to take this step.
• Some instinct of maidenly reticence curbed the passionate rebellion against his decision.
• Nothing will sooner deprive a girl or young lady of the maidenly grace and freshness with which nature blesses woman in her early years than secret vice.
• Maidenly modesty is one of the best qualities which any young lady can possess.
• I know how your heart is shrinking, how your delicate maidenly modesty is up in arms.
• At rare intervals at first, for maidenly dignity forbade that she should seem eager to meet him.
• So in her own quiet, maidenly way she set about devising a means for the relief of the unfortunate young men.
• Little wonder if Damaris, sitting up in her maidenly bedchamber, in the unsullied brightness of the early morning hour, failed to find any satisfactory answer to it.
• Now alone with her, confident, moreover, of her maidenly doubts and pretty self-distrust, he felt at a decided disadvantage.
• This might result from maidenly reserve or from the fact that she was not quite ready for decisive words.
• All reasonable time and space were granted to the claims of maidenly modesty.
• My own inclinations indeed, so far as is maidenly, go with his.
• I had rather you stood on your maidenly dignity and discretion than on your birth.
• Not prim stiffness, not suspicious maidenly dignity, but just smiling civility, a recognition of past slight acquaintance.
• Are you a wizzard that you have so drawn me on? Dare I speak? Is it maidenly that I should? There is a spell upon me.
• John, watching, thought he had never beheld a more perfect picture of beauty, grace and maidenly charm.
• Hampton, seated upon the bank, thought she had never beheld a more beautiful picture of grace and maidenly charm.

Similar words containing MAIDEN without suffix ly

maiden9 maidens10 maidenish15 mermaiden14 gleemaiden14 handmaiden17 maidenhair16 maidenhead17 maidenhood17 maidenlike17 maidenweed17 mermaidens15 unmaidenly16 maidenlier13 bridemaiden17 gleemaidens15 handmaidens18 maidenhairs17 maidenheads18 maidenhoods18 maidenweeds18 maidenliest14 bridemaidens18 maidenliness15 maidenlinesses17

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