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Meanings of unmanliness in English

Spanish
pluma

The trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man)

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Usage of unmanliness in English
1
Does that excuse your unmanliness, your-youmight have killed her, you know.
The Story of the Big Front Door
2
The unmanliness of his tone was so dreadful a disillusion.
The Odd Women
3
We rightly ascribe this sort of contentment to mere unmanliness and want of spirit.
Considerations on Representative Government
4
The feeling of unmanliness in his own position tortured him into a mood of perversity.
New Grub Street
5
But to-day I taunted my soul with its unmanliness till it rose in rebellion against me.
Prose Fancies
6
It is hard to understand the utter unmanliness and heartlessness of Romney's conduct in this respect.
Art in England: Notes and Studies
7
This is faint-heartedness and cowardice, ignobleness and unmanliness.
Food for the Lambs; or, Helps for Young Christians
8
Nevertheless, she had still great confidence in Van Loo's fear of scandal and his utter unmanliness.
The Three Partners
9
The "unmanliness" of Christianity is balanced by an insistence that the church values traditional male authority.
The Guardian
10
Whatever may be my vanity, or self-seeking, or unmanliness if you will, is not what I say God's truth?
An Old Man's Love
11
Its filth was even more disgusting than its vice, its obscenity than its licentiousness, and its unmanliness than its profligacy.
Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02
12
He is a stranger to me; I feel that I can love him without selfishness and weep for him without unmanliness.
Marguerite
13
I believed you despised me for my unmanliness, and I wanted to win you as a woman by being a man.
Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger
14
She let me know, too, the secret of his passionate absorption in gardens and interiors, lest I should think it argued any unmanliness in him.
The Belfry
15
Even a mother with her son can help him to be a man much more truly if she stops worrying about and resisting his unmanliness.
Nerves and Common Sense
16
"Forgive my unmanliness," he said; "it was kind of you to come to me."
Other Things Being Equal
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Translations for unmanliness
Spanish
pluma
Unmanliness through the time