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the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man)
he was shocked by the softness of the atmosphere surrounding the young prince, arising from the superfluity of the femininity that guided him
the students associated science with masculinity and arts with effeminacy
Spartans accused Athenians of effeminateness
How To Use womanishness In A Sentence
- And having thought upon it a hundred and five times, I know not what else to determine therein, save only that in the devising, hammering, forging, and composing of the woman she hath had a much tenderer regard, and by a great deal more respectful heed to the delightful consortship and sociable delectation of the man, than to the perfection and accomplishment of the individual womanishness or muliebrity. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel