The definition of what constitutes effeminacy varies greatly depending on the social and cultural context, as well as on the time period. From LearnThat.org.
The students associated science with masculinity and arts with effeminacy. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
And if it be opposed by deficiency, it will be the same as effeminacy, which is clearly false. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
Hugh Peters reference to England getting over her "effeminacy" and becoming warlike is an example of Puritan disappointment with Stuart foreign policy. From Wordnik.com. [The Pamphleteers Protestant Champion: Viewing Oliver Cromwell Through the Media of his Day] Reference
Have I shown no proof of that weakness or effeminacy which is so contemptible in a man?. From Wordnik.com. [Louis Philippe Makers of History Series] Reference
The study dismissed as exaggerated notions that ending the ban would lead to overt promiscuity, widespread "effeminacy" among men and "unwelcome advances.". From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
The poet's alleged uselessness, -- His effeminacy. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
Aoyama was not one to charge with effeminacy in any form. From Wordnik.com. [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference
To wear a beard was regarded as a sign of effeminacy in a man. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
His face was strikingly handsome, only saved from effeminacy by a firm chin. From Wordnik.com. [The Sheik] Reference
The penalties they threaten -- sickness, decrepitude, effeminacy -- are too dire to pass unheeded. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
Charged with weakness and effeminacy one would be laughed at as a fool; be unable to show his face. From Wordnik.com. [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference
This Aoyama poses as a misogynist, takes a wife -- perforce, and charges those of us who like women with effeminacy. From Wordnik.com. [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference
This characteristic of womanliness is not that weak, unsubstantial quality which we sometimes associate with effeminacy. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
Yet any suggestion of effeminacy certainly did not survive beyond the first glance at their ruggedly masculine features. From Wordnik.com. [The Time Traders] Reference
Contact with the vice and effeminacy of the East tended to lessen the manly vigor of the Greeks, both in Asia and in Europe. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
His face was shaved clean of the down of his adolescence, so that his somewhat sallow complexion looked smooth to effeminacy. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
Men who through weakness or effeminacy cannot vault upon their horses 'backs, teach them to kneel and so receive their riders. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
He washed not, neither did he yield to the effeminacy of the comb; his hair and nails grew to what length Nature wished: in short. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference
To the establishment of these separate states, the luxury and effeminacy of the court at Damascus in no small degree contributed. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Moors of Spain] Reference
Much of the story of Solomon, e.g., is unmistakably historical -- his luxury, his effeminacy, his commerce, his unscrupulousness. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference
There was no effeminacy connected with his lovable nature; he was quick to resent meanness or deceit, or wrong-doing of any kind. From Wordnik.com. [Story-Lives of Great Musicians] Reference
But Walpole and his tribe have fashion wholly to themselves, and possess force without heaviness, and elegance without effeminacy. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844] Reference
The presentation of the purely emotional side of their nature inevitably tends to produce an appearance of weakness and effeminacy. From Wordnik.com. [Australian Writers] Reference
The most obvious point of inferiority in Euripides is the choice of his subjects, which are charged with meanness and effeminacy; while. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference
Oh, American women, be exhorted to flee from the sorceress whose enchantments are binding you in the silken chains of an ignoble effeminacy. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
Even those who ought to know better lightly esteem the sport, as if, forsooth, there were something in the nature of effeminacy in its pursuit. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
Forty or fifty years ago the writer on American morals was sure to deplore the effeminacy and luxury of young Americans who were born of rich parents. From Wordnik.com. [Types of Children's Literature] Reference
We also would assuredly have saved the fatherland, for we have, we believe, marrow in our bones, and remain uncorrupted by modern luxury and effeminacy. From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia] Reference
The Hall of the Convention, according to reports of the time, was an appalling mixture of grandeur and effeminacy with respect to its architectural lines. From Wordnik.com. [Royal Palaces and Parks of France] Reference
Dud's blue eyes were frank, his lips were red and nicely curved; but his square chin took away from the lower part of his face any suggestion of effeminacy. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City] Reference
Profound without pedantry, subtle without craft, zealous without bigotry, and humane without effeminacy, he lived a philanthropic, pure, and consistent life. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862] Reference
The latter viand was repulsed with horror by the colonel, who in the effeminacy of a city life at Cuzeo had never tasted anything more outlandish than monkey. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873] Reference
The latter stood with his hands at his sides, a picture of effeminacy, but when the man tapped him on the nose a most singular and astonishing result followed. From Wordnik.com. [Oscar the Detective Or, Dudie Dunne, The Exquisite Detective] Reference
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