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Meaning of ladyhood | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

the quality or state of being a lady or ladylike.

uncountable

Examples

“If you were, you would have no carriages to ride in, and your daughters would be what Martha and Mary and Lydia and Dorcas were, and their title to ladyhood founded on their degrees of goodness." "”
“I saw myself in the full flower of young ladyhood, carrying at my side an awkward lad of a dozen years, attired in knickerbockers, and probably chewing a taffy stick, yet "wooing and loving as never man loved before."”
“But the effect of her voice, her ladyhood, and her command of this philosophy--those moved him.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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