"ladyness" meaning in English

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          "text": "Miss MacGooden, humorless, prim, ugly, with a face like dried leather, prided herself on being a “lady” from one of the best families—an uncle had been a congressman in the period of the Reconstruction. She was therefore, Helga Crane reflected, perhaps unable to perceive that the inducement to act like a lady, her own acrimonious example, was slight, if not altogether negative. And thinking on Miss MacGooden’s “ladyness,” Helga grinned a little as she remembered that one’s expressed reason for never having married, or intending to marry.",
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          "ref": "2005, Lee Khoon Choy, Pioneers of Modern China: Understanding the Inscrutable Chinese, World Scientific, →ISBN, pages 76–77:",
          "text": "In those days, most girls in Guangdong and Fujian had bound feet to show their “ladyness”.",
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          "ref": "2019, Laurie Essig, Love, Inc.: Dating Apps, the Big White Wedding, and Chasing the Happily Neverafter, University of California Press, →ISBN, pages 26–27:",
          "text": "It was precisely this labor of performing ladyhood that allowed the dictionary definition of lady to shift from primarily meaning “a woman of high social position” to a “woman who behaves in a polite way.” The shift from position to behavior did not completely unmoor “lady” from race and class hierarchies, but it did require a different set of behaviors and rituals of ladyness in order to maintain those hierarchies.",
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