Adjective : effeminate luxury. From Dictionary.com.
Anointed and fragrant as an Asiatic despot, the strong Ulysses would sometimes revolt against this effeminateness. From Wordnik.com. [Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel] Reference
Their faces of men and hair like women doubtless signify their boldness on the one hand and their effeminateness on the other. From Wordnik.com. [The Revelation Explained] Reference
Her perfect simplicity of motive and abandonment of selfish, vain effeminateness made her the delight of the great men she met. From Wordnik.com. [Memories of Hawthorne] Reference
Bennington was handsome, and, but for his father's blood, the idleness of his forebears would have marked him with effeminateness. From Wordnik.com. [Half a Rogue] Reference
Milton, from the extreme elegance of his person and his mind, rather than from any effeminateness of character, was called while in the University, "the lady of Christ's College.". From Wordnik.com. [Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2] Reference
So that since the excellencies of it may be so easily and so justly confirmed, and the low-creeping objections so soon trodden down: it not being an art of lies, but of true doctrine; not of effeminateness, but of notable stirring of courage; not of abusing mans wit, but of strengthening mans wit; not banished, but honored by Plato; let us rather plant more laurels for to engarland our poets headswhich honor of being laureate, as besides them only triumphant captains were, is a sufficient authority to show the price they ought to be held inthan suffer the ill-savored breath of such wrong speakers once to blow upon the clear springs of poesy. From Wordnik.com. [The Defense of Poesy] Reference
So that, sith the excellencies of it may be so easily and so justly confirmed, and the low-creeping objections, so soon trodden down; it not being an art of lies, but of true doctrine: not of effeminateness, but of notable stirring of courage: not of abusing man's wit, but of strengthening man's wit: not banished, but honoured by Plato: let us rather plant more laurels, for to engarland our poets 'heads, (which honour of being laureat, as besides them, only triumphant captains wear, is a sufficient authority, to show the price they ought to be had in,) than suffer the ill-favouring breath of such wrong-speakers, once to blow upon the clear springs of poesy. From Wordnik.com. [English literary criticism] Reference
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