feminacy

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noun

effeminacy

Scrabble 18

Meanings

nounfeminacy (countable and uncountable, plural feminacies)

plural feminacies

  1. archaiccountableuncountableeffeminacy

    In a word, the face and the figure were not in harmony; the figure prevented you from pronouncing her to be masculine — the face took from the figure the charm of feminacy. It was the head of the young Augustus upon the form of Agrippina.

    1846, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Lucretia; or, The Children of Night
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