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Meanings of effeminacy in English
Manifestation of traits in a boy or man that are more often associated with femininity.
Related terms
Spanish
pluma The trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man)
Usage of effeminacy in English
1
A language of exhaustless variety; strong without ruggedness, and flexible without effeminacy.
2
Yet, in spite of all this effeminacy, the appearance of Edward IV.
3
These two Italian abbes were ne plus ultras in luxury and effeminacy.
4
Grecian refinement was no longer despised; Grecian effeminacy had not yet prevailed.
5
The ex-commercial traveller was astonished at the effeminacy engendered by provincial life.
6
All the effeminacy of past days had returned upon me at once.
7
Henry is appalled by Ed's philistinism; Ed is appalled by Henry's effeminacy.
8
From Greece were introduced learning and refinement, from Asia immorality and effeminacy.
9
Their sublime art became the handmaid of effeminacy, of vanity, of sensuality.
10
Trousers or breeches of any sort they despised as marks of effeminacy.
11
Any care for appearances is regarded rather as a sign of effeminacy.
12
His features were well formed and refined, without any approach to effeminacy.
13
Expel grief, fear, desire, envy, malevolence, avarice, effeminacy, intemperance, from your mind.
14
The effeminacy and apathy of his disposition fitted him to excel in it.
15
The physical organisation of the Bengalee is feeble even to effeminacy.
16
The fine expression of his countenance alone redeemed it from effeminacy.
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