Usage of "feminine gender"

Russian

Portuguese

Catalan

femení

Spanish

femenino

Grammatical gender.

Related terms

grammatical gender

Usage of feminine gender in English

Some will notice that I have been using pronouns in the feminine gender. 
 Have We No Rights? A frank discussion of the "rights" of mission... 

With the pirsistent obstinacy of the feminine gender, she refused to notice me. 
 Strange Visitors / A series of original papers, embracing philos... 

The Loir, male, is the river, not La Loire of the feminine gender. 
 Cliff Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe 

I'm not tall enough to please everyone of the feminine gender. 
 The Lamp in the Desert 

No; I mean a cad of the feminine gender. 
 A Perilous Secret 

She gave the impression of a young person of the feminine gender-that ,andnothing more. 
 The Grain of Dust: A Novel 

In his hand, he conducted to church a mysterious child: a child of the feminine gender. 
 The Uncommercial Traveller 

Suppose I read it with the feminine gender: 
 An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony, ... 

Julian has had various advisers-ofthe feminine gender. 
 Flames 

Shakespeare knew what he was doing when he made the witches in Macbeth of the feminine gender. 
 California Sketches, New Series 

I notice that man always applies the feminine gender to anything unreliable in the way of machinery. 
 Swirling Waters 

The apartment is of the feminine gender. 
 Stories by American Authors, Volume 5 

There being no neuter form, the feminine gender was extended, and made to comprise all other beings. 
 The Iroquois Book of Rites 

Do we not catch a glimpse of this in the masculine and feminine gender of Romance languages? 
 The Tyranny Of Words 

There's only the feminine gender for that. 
 This Freedom 

For example: poets and artists have usually attached female loveliness to angels, and placed them in the feminine gender. 
 Lectures on Language, as Particularly Connected with English Gra... 