effeminacy

Examples of effeminate

effeminate
As a result, he is transformed into a passive almost effeminate being who remains neutral and who extricates himself from social and political life.
What combination of these and in what degree constitutes an "effeminate man"?
Until about mid-century, picturing a man recumbent was a way to make him effeminate, a juxtaposition strikingly revealed in a political cartoon from roughly 1838.
Pre-occupation with dress in men is often condemned as effeminate, associating men with negatively-perceived female qualities of vanity and narcissism.
Pro-luxury writers refuted the suggestion that high levels of consumption rendered a nation weak and effeminate.
In the nineteenth century these values also explicitly involved gender because ornamentation was considered sensual or effeminate, and the lack of ornamentation rational or masculine.
Daphnis's association with ornament and metric dissonance is linked directly to his depiction as a sensitive, effeminate character.
Braddon implicitly argues that the space of fascination is a female one and that women, rather than effeminate men, will be successful within it.
Such contrasts between active, manly virtue and its presumed opposites, the effeminate vices of cowardice, idleness, luxury, and dependency, fill the writings of the revolutionary and early national eras.
A taste for consumer goods, especially luxuries, made a nation weak, self-indulgent and effeminate, undermining the fighting qualities of its army and the selfdenying virtues necessary for good citizenship.
Here the sofa could be a platform for conversation between men and women, but it could also raise fears of effeminate influence and luxury, corroders of independent male citizens.
I regard it neither as effeminate nor yet as a kind of criminal act to do so.
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