femineity

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

There was a family resemblance, but in the daughter the magic of femineity had softened the severer characteristics until they became winsome and good to look upon.

From A Romance in Transit by Lynde, Francis

C�ZANNEDESSERT Berthe Morisot will remain the most fascinating figure of Impressionism,—the one who has stated most precisely the femineity of this luminous and iridescent art.

From The French Impressionists (1860-1900) by Mauclair, Camille

There was in the character of his countenance the femineity which Coleridge thought to be the mental constitution of true genius.

From Life of John Keats by Rossetti, William Michael

Her name is perhaps meant to indicate her quality of inveterate femineity.

From The Wagnerian Romances by Brownell, Gertrude Hall

By what trick had they crept into the very centre of that mass of femineity?

From Anna of the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold