Synonyms for effeminacy
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : ih-fem-uh-nuh-see |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɪˈfɛm ə nə si |
Définition of effeminacy
Origin :- c.1600; see effeminate + -acy.
- noun effeminateness
- Yet there was a set of the mouth and a prominence of the chin which relieved him of any trace of effeminacy.
- Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- The one producing a temper of hardness and ferocity, the other of softness and effeminacy, I replied.
- Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
- Man, in the midst of all his effeminacy, is still male and nothing but male.
- Extract from : « Fantasia of the Unconscious » by D. H. Lawrence
- He would have liked to throw bombs into the nest of effeminacy.
- Extract from : « The Rough Road » by William John Locke
- His features were well formed and refined, without any approach to effeminacy.
- Extract from : « Won from the Waves » by W.H.G. Kingston
- Yet, in spite of all this effeminacy, the appearance of Edward IV.
- Extract from : « The Last Of The Barons, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- Have I shown no proof of that weakness or effeminacy which is so contemptible in a man?
- Extract from : « Louis Philippe » by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
- To the age of conquest succeeded one of effeminacy and corruption.
- Extract from : « The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) » by George Warburton
- In ancient times the effeminacy and luxury of the Cypriotes had passed into a proverb.
- Extract from : « Cyprus » by Franz von Lher
- The sense here intended is 'effeminacy,' or 'unmanly weakness.'
- Extract from : « Chaucer's Works, Volume 2 (of 7) » by Geoffrey Chaucer
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