wombly

comparative more wombly · superlative most wombly

1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of having a womb.

   Or is it that foetuses, and they alone, require wombly residence in order to survive?

   1978, John Hayden Woods, Engineered Death

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   In practicing couvade, the male makes himself wombly. An initiated aboriginal man made womanly by sub-incision can imitate the womb's ability to open.

   1929, Nor Hall, Warren Royal Dawson, Brood Males

2. broadlyfigurativelymotherly; womanly.

   This image extends to the divine person through the use of […] in Jeremiah 31.20 to signify God's motherly (or 'wombly') compassion for the beloved child, Ephraim.

   2005, Deborah Sawyer, David Gunn, Gary. A Philips, God, Gender and the Bible

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   He remembers Milly's childhood fear of being deserted and the terror she experienced at the first bloody sign of womanly/wombly maturation: "Her growing pains at night […]

   1990, Suzette A. Henke, James Joyce and the Politics of Desire