What's the difference between ladyhood and ladylike?
Ladyhood
Definition:
(n.) The state or quality of being a lady; the personality of a lady.
Example Sentences:
Ladylike
Definition:
(a.) Like a lady in appearance or manners; well-bred.
(a.) Becoming or suitable to a lady; as, ladylike manners.
(a.) Delicate; tender; feeble; effeminate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Finally it has been confirmed that Cheryl Cole , the formerly punchy but now ever-so-ladylike doyenne of British showbiz, is shipping out to Los Angeles to take her place on the US X Factor judging panel.
(2) They can look downright ladylike, even sexy, and this has caused the high street to go shorts-crazy.
(3) This early reporting of the suffragette movement by the Guardian, edited through a male Liberal view that thought women could earn their enfranchisement if they engaged in reasoned debate and behaved in a ladylike manner, set the tone for much that was to follow.
(4) Students were required to live in nursing homes, be in their rooms at certain hours, dress in very restrictive uniforms and ever strive to be ladylike.
(5) Which makes me wonder: if philosophy is to be more "gender friendly", do philosophers have first to act, well, if not in more "ladylike" fashion, then at least with greater decorum?
(6) Austen was marketed as a universal Aunt Jane in a perfect Hampshire cottage – sweet, cosy, ladylike, amateur and unthreatening.
(7) This year's Tangled brought in " Disney Princess " No 10, Rapunzel, but despite a bit of pop-culture attitude, her ultimate fate is to be ladylike, marry a prince and live happily ever after in her newfound patriarchal milieu, just like her predecessors.
(8) In person she is dainty, almost exaggeratedly ladylike, and much more playfully ambivalent than the public debate about her book.
(9) Before he leaves at 10pm, someone suggests that, since they are still bigging up the ladylike look, the fashion press may not go a bundle on the grungy baby-doll dresses, plaid shirts and biker boots that Slimane sent down the catwalk.
(10) Kate Pool, its deputy chief executive, said: “She was amazing – very quiet, controlled, genteel, ladylike, polite, old-fashioned – she didn’t suffer fools gladly, but was amazingly kind.
(11) These results suggest that social assessments made about female sport participation within high school status systems remain heavily influenced by traditional beliefs regarding feminine, "ladylike" behavior.
(12) Her self-deprecating, acerbic jokes were sliced out in the edit suite; vulgar remarks that were deemed insufficiently ladylike were excised from her column.