"ladiness" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From lady + -ness.",
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          "ref": "1966, John Gould, Last One In: Tales of a New England Boyhood, a Gently Pleasing Dip into a Cool, Soothing Pool of the Not-So-Long-Ago, So to Speak, page 153",
          "text": "Mother believed round garters cut off the circulation and caused varicose veins, so she kept me in a pantywaist several years longer than most boys. Nobody knew this except me and Mother, and I was particularly careful to keep it a secret because there was a touch of ladiness to a waist after a boy got about so big.",
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          "ref": "1990, Claudia Bepko, Jo Ann Krestan, Too Good for Her Own Good: Breaking Free from the Burden of Female Responsibility, page 18",
          "text": "“Ladiness” is grounded in a rather rigid code of behavior that varies only slightly according to ethnic or cultural values.",
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          "ref": "1997, Albemarle",
          "text": "Two, Mother and aunt Wheezie were equally as passionate that I should become a lady. Becoming a lady was such hard work I hated it. I couldn’t fathom why any girl would want to be one. Furthermore, I clearly understood at the ripe old age of eight that Mother and Wheezie often strayed from the path of ladiness.",
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        "The quality of being a lady."
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          "word": "ladyness"
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  "word": "ladiness"
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  "etymology_text": "From lady + -ness.",
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          "ref": "1966, John Gould, Last One In: Tales of a New England Boyhood, a Gently Pleasing Dip into a Cool, Soothing Pool of the Not-So-Long-Ago, So to Speak, page 153",
          "text": "Mother believed round garters cut off the circulation and caused varicose veins, so she kept me in a pantywaist several years longer than most boys. Nobody knew this except me and Mother, and I was particularly careful to keep it a secret because there was a touch of ladiness to a waist after a boy got about so big.",
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