Wom"an*hood (?), n.
1.
The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind.
Unspotted faith, and comely womanhood.
Spenser.
Perhaps the smile and the tender tone
Came out of her pitying womanhood.
Tennyson.
2.
Women, collectively; womankind.
© Webster 1913.