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effeminateness

noun as in effeminacy

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"Also, there is a certain effeminateness in the way in which you speak," said Pembroke.

To all appearances equally removed from effeminateness and brutality, he was subject, nevertheless, to accesses of both.

Their faces of men and hair like women doubtless signify their boldness on the one hand and their effeminateness on the other.

Anointed and fragrant as an Asiatic despot, the strong Ulysses would sometimes revolt against this effeminateness.

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."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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