effeminacy

Example Sentences

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Beware, then, my son, beware of yielding the heart to the effeminacies of passion.

From Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father by Mitchell, I. (Isaac)

If they do not hold soap and water in absolute fear, as Dick Harvey said, they at least look upon them as vanities and effeminacies unworthy of desperadoes.

From Jack Harkaway and His Son's Escape from the Brigand's of Greece by Hemyng, Bracebridge