womanward

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

woman +‎ -ward

Adverb[edit]

womanward (not comparable)

  1. Toward a woman or women.
    • 1905, Bram Stoker, The Man Chapter I
      his thoughts went womanward and wifeward
    • 1915, Edgar Wallace, Bones/Prologue:
      [] when men meet together in public conference, however innocent may be its first cause, talk invariably drifts to war, just as when they assemble and talk in private it drifts womanward.