feminity

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“
: Indian art is the mirror of Indian feminity, a statement that portrays the present position of the fairer sex in this field.

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  1. The qualities becoming a woman; womanliness. Hither great Venus brought this infant fayre, The yonger daughter of Chrysogonee, And unto Psyche with great trust and care Committed her, yfostered to bee And trained up in trew feminitee. Spenser, F. Q., III. vi. 51.
  2. Effeminacy. Symptoms of feminity in the Church of Rome. Dr. H. More, Epistles to the Seven Churches, vi.

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  • For much of this century, severe pregnancy sickness was considered an oral attempt at abortion--a loathing of feminity, your husband, or sexuality. —  Omni: May 1994
  • Hi, deepika ma'm I wish you Many many many many n many happy returns of the day, may you keep smiling lik dis always and be happy 4ever, in your life, and keep doing great jobs of entertainment and feminity. —  Screen News
  • "It is important to embrace feminity, to embrace girliness," says Ms Gascoigne. —  Silicon Valley Watcher - reporting on the business of technology and media
  • So, I try to make any female character I work with believable or bring aspects of feminity to her without making her seem girly or weak in that aspect that the connotations of girliness carry with it. —  Toon Zone News
  • Amongst other subjects, Lyndal Roper deals with the nature of masculinity and feminity. —  AvaxHome RSS:
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  1. from Middle English feminite, femynyte, from Old French feminite, femminite; contr. of femininitee: seefemininity.
 

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