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Example sentences for: womanhood

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In the United States this is no longer the case, but the celebration does symbolize the transition from childhood to womanhood.
Thousands of young women helped to build the church of God with their body, blood and bones when frenzied fathers, husbands or fiancés preferred to see them die by fire, sword or the fangs of wild beasts rather than live to flout [sic] the duty and destiny of womanhood.
In his Historia de Nueva España, Bernardino de Sahagún narrates that it was traditional for the parents of a young Aztec maiden to formally acknowledge her passage into womanhood.
Although she is the preeminent representation of womanhood, she has become an icon for women’s subjugation and oppression.
Book -- Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood , by Naomi Wolf;