Lexicographical Neighbors of Effeminacies
Literary usage of Effeminacies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1860)
"... effeminacies of rhyme. 'We will leave the millinery department to others,'
they say—& little too decidedly perhaps. It is their delight to contend with ..."
2. A History of English Literature by William Robertson Nicoll, Thomas Seccombe (1907)
"Against effeminacies and swooning luxuriousness we may set the ... Nay, his
effeminacies are often such only in expression, and his frequent regrets are ..."
3. A History of English Literature by William Robertson Nicoll, Thomas Seccombe (1907)
"Against effeminacies and swooning luxuriousness we may set the brotherly care in
his letters to ... Nay, his effeminacies are often such only in expression, ..."
4. A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales: A Study of English Prose by Jonathan Nield, Charlotte Elizabeth Morgan, Harry Levi (1911)
"After many tears, sighs and apologies " for these effeminacies," the hero began
his dolorous tale. ..."
5. The Contemporary Review (1873)
"... even to the petrified assuétudes and porcelain effeminacies of the Chinese ;—it
must seem surprising to most people, that so very few good books have ..."
6. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1883)
"... a poem that they employed iu their political discussions, or considering all
such productions as effeminacies undeserving of waste of time or thought, ..."
7. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1861)
"... underrating the impetuous agitation of the great devastator, with neither time
nor inclination for the effeminacies of language or the pedantry of forms ..."
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