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feminine
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[ adjective ] associated with women and not with men
Examples "feminine intuition" Used in print (Bell I. Wiley, "Home Letters of Johnny Reb and Billy...)An Alabama soldier whose feminine associations were of the more admirable type wrote boastfully of his achievements among the Virginia belles : `` They thout I was a saint . (Irving Fineman, Woman of Valor: The Life of Henrietta...)She could not resist the opportunity `` of showing her superiority in argument over a man '' which she had remarked as one of the `` feminine follies '' of Sara_Sullam ; and in her forthright way , Henrietta , who in her story of Sara had indicated her own unwillingness `` to think_of men as the privileged '' and `` women as submissive and yielding '' , felt obliged to defend vigorously any statement of hers to which Morris_Jastrow took the slightest exception - he objected to her stand on the Corbin affair , as_well_as on the radical reforms of Dr._Wise of Hebrew_Union_College - until once , in sheer desperation , he wrote that he had given_up hope they would ever agree on anything . Neither was Henrietta hoydenish like Jo , who frankly wished she were a boy and had deliberately shortened her name , which , like Henrietta 's , was the feminine form of a boy 's name . Related terms masculine female powder-puff powder-puff maidenlike fair female female |
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[ adjective ] (music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable
Examples "a feminine ending" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (grammar) a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female
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