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feminine

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Feminine , or femininity, normally refers to qualities positively associated with women. Feminine may also refer to: Feminine (grammar) , a grammatical gender Feminine cadence , a final chord falling in a metrically weak position Feminine rhyme , a rhyme ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES feminine touch ▪ The feminine touch was evident throughout the house. feminine wiles ▪ It was impossible to resist her feminine wiles . sb’s creative/caring/feminine etc side ▪ The art program is meant to bring ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. associated with women and not with men; "feminine intuition" [ant: masculine ] of grammatical gender [ant: neuter , masculine ] befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman; "womanly virtues of gentleness and compassion" [syn: womanly ...

Usage examples of feminine.

He desired to shape her character to the feminine of his own, and betrayed the surprise of a slight disappointment at her advocacy of her ideas.

But is this secret knowledge, this mystical and alchemical awareness of the Feminine, also buried under the dust of centuries?

She still must follow citizen Anet as the feminine pronoun follows the masculine, or as a verb agrees with its nominative case in number and in person.

Madame Psychosis as bizarre that it was she, Madame Psychosis, whom the Auteur kept casting as various feminine instantiations of Death when he had the real thing right under his nose, and eminently photogenic to boot, the widow-to-be, apparently a real restaurant-silencer-type beauty even in her late forties.

Though, logically, my pilgrimage had ended with the unexpected discovery of Sylvia Joy, yet there were two famous feminine types of which, seeing that I was in Paris, I thought I might as well make brief studies, before I returned to London and finally resumed the bachelorhood from which I had started.

It was Brockle Buhn, the feminine gnome Crockett had already encountered.

Even the flaring coral pink and incarnadine satins of the capes glistened with the lubricious tones of intimate feminine flesh and served to underscore the essentially lascivious nature of the frenzy that descended upon the tiered ranks of spectators.

This demon would be able to enchant a serpent, thought, remembering that same smile when he was reflected in the cinematographic screens and he increased the temperature of all the feminine public.

One of the lengths to which they went was the establishment of patriarchal religion and the recasting of a father figure as the producer of the show, although from the very beginning, the cosmogonic principal had been feminine.

Although I was delighted at having obtained every favour I could possibly wish for in the uncomfortable position we had been in, I racked my brain to contrive the means of securing more complete enjoyment for the following night, but I found during the afternoon that the feminine cunning of my beautiful Greek was more fertile than mine.

When her aunt introduced me to her by name, she observed with true feminine tact that during her stay at Aix she had seen me five or six times at the fountain, but that I could not remember her features as she had always worn her veil.

The same Deity was often masculine and feminine: what was Dea Luna in one country, was Deus Lunus in another.

And he had known his Amir Khan well when he had told the Dewan that the fierce Pindari was gentle enough when it came to a matter of feminine beauty, for Bootea made an impression.

Her kind feminine fancy conjured up every possible extenuation of his dire offence.

While some transsexuals are born with feminine features, most need some cosmetic surgery to feminize the appearance.