10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FEMINILITY»
Discover the use of
feminility in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
feminility and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
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
2
Corleone: a tale of Sicily
You used to think he had a certain feminility, too." "So he had." " But he fought like
a man at Mentana ; and he thinks like a man, and he certainly paints like a man."
"Yes; that is true. Only we never had any artists in the family. It seems odd that ...
Francis Marion Crawford, 1910
3
New English and Italian pronouncing and explanatory dictionary
... if. silly woman, hussy Femmlneo, -a, a. fiminine, womanish Femminescaminte ,
adv. like a woman, wiakly Femminesco, -a, a. womanlike, effeminate Femminilta,
if. little woman, tidy little woman Femminézza, if. feminility, feminism Flgliáre, va.
4
The awakening of women: or, woman's part in evolution
If the criminal woman is compared with the normal woman, she is found to
approach more closely to the normal man than the latter does ; while the
corresponding character (feminility) is not found so often in the criminal as in the
normal man ...
5
Harry Coverdale's Courtship, and All that Came of it
... our very face—we sleep soundly, our mind lies fallow for some six hours, and
lo! a change has come o'er us; our goddess has stepped down from her pedestal,
and appears a very average specimen of white muslined feminility and flirtation, ...
Francis Edward Smedley, 1867
6
The British and Foreign Review Or European Quarterly Journal
Bulwer, Mr. E. L., why classed among the Lady Novelists, 483—feminility of his
talents and temper, ib.—his glaring solecisms, ib.—his mis-statements with
regard to the British and Foreign Review, 4-8t—his French like that of an Iroquois,
...
Thus irresistibly by Love embraced Is she who boasts her more than mortal
chaste !' ' Find'st thou me worthy, then, by day and night, But of this fond indignity,
delight ?' ' Little, bold Feminility, That darest blame Heaven, what would'st thou
have ...
Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore, 1886
8
The unknown Eros. Amelia, etc
Little, bold Feminility, That darest blame Heaven, what would'st thou have or be?'
' Shall I, the gnat which dances in thy ray, Dare to be reverent ? Therefore dare I
say, I cannot guess the good that I desire ; But this I know, I spurn the gifts which ...
Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore, 1887
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THE MONTHLY PACKET OF EVENING READING
Or,' suggested the gentleman opposite, '.did he figure as the father confessor of
the sisterhood T ' Oh, the Paterfamilias and his servant had gone across by some
walking way ; so the ladies had all the prestige of pure feminility, and were too ...
(law) donna maritata Feminility, ». femminalità Femme, s. v. Fème Féminine , adj.
femminino, femminésco , mu- liebre; — gènder, il génère femminino Fémoral, adj
. délia со scia, femorile Fén , s. acq ui tri no , palúde, pantino Fënce, s. ripiro, ...
