Manifestation of traits in a boy or man that are more often associated with femininity.
The trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man)
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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