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Meanings of effeminacy in English

Russian
эффеминация
Portuguese
efeminação
Spanish
pluma
Catalan
efeminament
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Manifestation of traits in a boy or man that are more often associated with femininity.

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      эффеминация
      Spanish
      pluma

      The trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man)

            pluma
            Usage of effeminacy in English
            1
            A language of exhaustless variety; strong without ruggedness, and flexible without effeminacy.
            Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader / B...
            2
            Yet, in spite of all this effeminacy, the appearance of Edward IV.
            The Last of the Barons — Volume 02
            3
            These two Italian abbes were ne plus ultras in luxury and effeminacy.
            The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims. Volume 2 (of 2)
            4
            Grecian refinement was no longer despised; Grecian effeminacy had not yet prevailed.
            Germania and Agricola
            5
            The ex-commercial traveller was astonished at the effeminacy engendered by provincial life.
            Bouvard and Pécuchet: A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life, par...
            6
            All the effeminacy of past days had returned upon me at once.
            The Blithedale Romance
            7
            Henry is appalled by Ed's philistinism; Ed is appalled by Henry's effeminacy.
            The new yorker
            8
            From Greece were introduced learning and refinement, from Asia immorality and effeminacy.
            Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D.
            9
            Their sublime art became the handmaid of effeminacy, of vanity, of sensuality.
            The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilizati...
            10
            Trousers or breeches of any sort they despised as marks of effeminacy.
            The Winning of the West, Volume 1 / From the Alleghanies to the ...
            11
            Any care for appearances is regarded rather as a sign of effeminacy.
            Yet Again
            12
            His features were well formed and refined, without any approach to effeminacy.
            Won from the Waves
            13
            Expel grief, fear, desire, envy, malevolence, avarice, effeminacy, intemperance, from your mind.
            The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy
            14
            The effeminacy and apathy of his disposition fitted him to excel in it.
            Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2
            15
            The physical organisation of the Bengalee is feeble even to effeminacy.
            Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1
            16
            The fine expression of his countenance alone redeemed it from effeminacy.
            Self-Raised; Or, From the Depths
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