ladihood

The judicial proceedings which have taken place concerning the murder have been only less disgusting than were the taring and mutilation of Kelsey by the chivalry and ladihood of the town.

1873 October 30, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, volume 34, number 259, Brooklyn, N.Y.

With your great zest for life, it is dreadful to think of you as a virgin, but your books offer almost irrefutable testimony to the fact, unless indeed, your Virginian ladihood stepped in and caused you to become reticent.

1962, Ellen Glasgow, Romancière, page 231

The first Catholic residential liberal arts college for women in New England was founded by the Dominican Sisters in 1925, its purpose to “rear solid intellectuals and powerful characters of genuine refinement; and these are to become thinkers and leaders and the noble among ladihood of the future.”

1976, The American Woman’s Gazetteer, page 33

Young ladihood, however, was Lady Mary’s veneer but not her substance, to judge from what is probably her second-earliest extant letter, written in 1709 to a friend still to be discussed:[…]

1999, Isobel Grundy, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Oxford University Press, published 2001, →ISBN, page 28