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Word Meanings - EFFEMINATELY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. In an effeminate or womanish manner; weakly; softly; delicately. "Proud and effeminately gay." Fawkes. 2. By means of a woman; by the power or art of a woman. "Effeminately vanquished." Milton.

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  • PROUDLING
    A proud or haughty person. Sylvester.
  • PROUD
    prout, prud, prut, AS. prut; akin to Icel. pruedhr stately, handsome, 1. Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense; as: Possessing or showing too great self-esteem; overrating one's excellences; hence, arrogant; haughty; lordly;
  • POWERFUL
    Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
  • POWERABLE
    1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden.
  • WOMANLY
    Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior. Arbuthnot. A blushing, womanly discovering grace. Donne.
  • EFFEMINATE
    1. Having some characteristic of a woman, as delicacy, luxuriousness, etc.; soft or delicate to an unmanly degree; womanish; weak. The king, by his voluptuous life and mean marriage, became effeminate, and less sensible of honor. Bacon.
  • PROUDISH
    Somewhat proud. Ash.
  • WOMANHEAD; WOMANHEDE
    Womanhood. Chaucer.
  • SOFTLY
    In a soft manner.
  • MANNERIST
    One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
  • MANNERISM
    Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
  • WEAKLY
    In a weak manner; with little strength or vigor; feebly.
  • VANQUISHABLE
    That may be vanquished.
  • WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION
    An association of women formed in the United States in 1874, for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive, educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work.
  • POWERLESS
    Destitute of power, force, or energy; weak; impotent; not able to produce any effect. -- Pow"er*less*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*less*ness, n.
  • DELICATELY
    In a delicate manner.
  • WOMANHOOD
    1. The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind. Unspotted faith, and comely womanhood. Spenser. Perhaps the smile and the tender tone Came out of her pitying womanhood. Tennyson. 2.
  • POWER
    The product arising from the multiplication of a number into itself; as, a square is the second power, and a cube is third power, of a number. (more info) v., fr. LL. potere, for L. posse, potesse, to be able, to have power. 1. Ability to act,
  • WOMANIZE
    To make like a woman; to make effeminate. V. Knox.
  • AIRWOMAN
    A woman who ascends or flies in an aircraft.
  • CANDLE POWER
    Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle.
  • ENGLISHWOMAN
    Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
  • UNWOMAN
    To deprive of the qualities of a woman; to unsex. R. Browning.
  • UNMANNERLY
    Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
  • OVERPROUD
    Exceedingly or unduly proud. "Overproud of his victory." Milton.
  • NOBLEWOMAN
    A female of noble rank; a peeress.
  • BONDSWOMAN
    See BONDWOMAN
  • IMPOWER
    See EMPOWER
  • NEEDLEWOMAN
    A woman who does needlework; a seamstress.
  • TOP-PROUD
    Proud to the highest degree. "This top-proud fellow." Shak.
  • DAIRYWOMAN
    A woman who attends to a dairy.
  • POLICE POWER
    The inherent power of a government to regulate its police affairs. The term police power is not definitely fixed in meaning. In the earlier cases in the United States it was used as including the whole power of internal government, or the powers

 

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