10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FEMINACY»
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feminacy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Love and Money: Queers, Class, and Cultural Production
... finger pointing, hip canting, lip protruding, hoochie posturing, and bitching
about cheating and broken promises mark the joke, whose female character
retreats in horror, though whether she is disgusted by gayness, ei'feminacy, or
duplicity ...
2
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage: The Classic First Edition
The words on record in the OED are : feminacy, feminality, femineity, fcminicity,
feminility, feminineness, femininism, femininity, feminism, feminity. Of these
feminacy, feminality, feminicity, & feminility, may be put out of court as mere failed
...
H. W. Fowler, David Crystal, 2009
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An Essay on the History of Civil Society. ... Third edition, ...
... the shores of America: the Canadian and the Iroquois'bear- a resemblance to
the ancient inhabitants of the middling climates of - Europe. The Mexican, like the
Asiatic ,of India, being addicted to pleasure, was sunk in ef' feminacy ', a Seer.
Adam FERGUSON (LL.D.), 1814
Educated even to learning —courageous even to a want of feminacy—she
delighted to sport with ignorance and pretension, even in the highest places ; and
the laugh that she excited was like lightning—no one could divine where next it
might ...
Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, 1877
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The Gentleman's Magazine
The lisping cl'feminacy, the melancholy jargon, the French and German foppery
of the moustached and cigared race that the coffee-house life of the continent has
ropsgated among us, would have found no avour in the eyes of this honest and ...
6
The Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal: ... To Be ...
... of hospitality—the same martial and predatory habits—the same simplicity of
manners, hardihood, and contempt of el'feminacy; and also the same aversion to
labour and mechanical employments that distinguished the Scotch Highlander, ...
feminacy and wanton affections ; so He knew no crime was sooner objected, or
harder cleared, than that. Of which, because commonly it is acted in privacy, men
look for no probation but pregnant circumstances and arguments of suspect : so ...
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Characters; or, reflections on the manners of the age. ...
feminacy of the Officers in the Time of' Peace, if they have behaved well in War.
Let every Class enjoy its Privileges. The Noblesse is the Seminary of Heroes; the
Criterion of the Gentry, is Spirit'and Valour. A lower 'Degree stirnishes the Men of
...
Madame Madeleine de PUISIEUX, 1751
9
The Novels of Lord Lytton: The disowned
It was true that the sense of wrong did not break forth audibly ; for, though
susceptible, Isabel was meek, and her pride was concealed by the outward
softness and feminacy of her temper; but she stole away from those who had
wounded her ...
Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, 1897
10
The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles the Fifth
29 v * feminacy, and averse to war. Such a character was the.
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Brickyard Blues
My hands is rough like bricks. A man's hands, they have that roughness. A woman's don't. She have to maintain her feminacy, and out here on the brick field she ... «Chicago Reader, Aug 09»
