effeminacy

How to use effeminacy in a sentence

• And with the passing of Roman manhood into oriental effeminacy began the passing of Roman sway over the civilized world.

  The Private Life of the Romans | Harold Whetstone Johnston

• They despised wealth just as other nations despise effeminacy and foppery.

  Xerxes | Jacob Abbott

• He had delicate features, redeemed from effeminacy by the swarthiness of his complexion, and his quick intensity of expression.

  North and South | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

• There where true grace simply used ease and provenance, affected grace becomes effeminacy.

  The Aesthetical Essays | Friedrich Schiller

• Of the effeminacy of a night robe Webster knew nothing except by somewhat hazy rumour.

  Corporal Cameron | Ralph Connor