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Meanings of unmanliness in English

Spanish
pluma

The trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man)

pluma
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Examples for "softness"
Examples for "softness"
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Despite the softness of her voice, the words carried to the others.
The Irda (Children of the Stars)
2
The rugged fortress lay swathed in the softness of the creamy light.
St. George and St. Michael, Volume 2
3
But the softness is there; everything in this twilight temple is soft.
Tremendous Trifles
4
The first confused hardness with progress; the second confused softness with progress.
My Life and Work
5
I heard the softness in her voice when she mentioned your name.
Snow melts in spring
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...
1
Anointed and fragrant as an Asiatic despot, the strong Ulysses would sometimes revolt against this effeminateness.
Mare Nostrum (Our Sea): A Novel
2
To all appearances equally removed from effeminateness and brutality, he was subject, nevertheless, to accesses of both.
Atlantis
3
Bennington was handsome, and, but for his father's blood, the idleness of his forebears would have marked him with effeminateness.
Half a Rogue
4
"Also, there is a certain effeminateness in the way in which you speak," said Pembroke.
The Perfectionists
1
We need a new word for laddishness, for this is womanishness nowadays.
The Guardian
2
There was no limit to his womanishness.
Botchan (Master Darling)
3
Even in the agony of my awakening consciousness I felt the inevitable sting of shame at my weakness and womanishness.
The Doctor's Dilemma
4
Yes; you sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanishness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.
An Unsocial Socialist
1
Men no longer regard creased trousers, nicely tied cravats, well-chosen collars, and harmonious color combinations as signs of sissiness, snobbishness, or weak-mindedness.
The Book of Business Etiquette
2
It was fun for them, besides they felt it would be a service to knock out some of the Boston "sissiness."
A Backward Glance at Eighty: Recollections & Comment
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
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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
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Nevertheless, she had still great confidence in Van Loo's fear of scandal and his utter unmanliness.
The Three Partners
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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
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He is a stranger to me; I feel that I can love him without selfishness and weep for him without unmanliness.
Marguerite
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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
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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