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.
Related words: (words related to EFFEMINATELY)
- 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