Effeminacy

Effeminacy is a double play on the relation between supposed passion and natural feeling, and thus a manipulation of all that poetry should engage.

Wordsworth’s Balladry: Real Men Wanted 1999

Woman, I think it as misbecoming in your Sex, as Effeminacy in ours; and a learned Lady is as ridiculous as a spinning Hercules.

Exilius 2008

One of the things he touched on was the various approaches to hair - the way long, flowing locks have shot from being a sign of Real Masculinity to Shocking Effeminacy and back over time.

Boing Boing: January 9, 2005 - January 15, 2005 Archives 2005

Effeminacy, are pretty nearly at the same degree of Excess here, and in every other Part of Europe.

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 3 June 1778 1973

I might have mentioned inquired whether he mentioned the universal Spirit of Debauchery, Dissipation, Luxury, Effeminacy and Gaming which the late ministerial Measures are introducing, &c. &c. &c.

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 5 - 6 July 1774 1963

Effeminacy begin to be established, these Rewards will begin to be distributed to Vanity and folly.

John Adams diary 15, 30 January 1768, 10 August 1769 - 22 August 1770 1961

_Vapours_, which _Idleness_, _Effeminacy_ and _Delicacy_ subject men to;

The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing Robert Howlett

_Effeminacy_ and _Delicacy_, as contemptible and unworthy so Royal and

The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing Robert Howlett

Effeminacy, softness, and caprice attitudinize before us.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

Where the Reins of Government are too slack, there the Manners of the People are corrupted: And that destroys Industry, begets Effeminacy, and provokes Heaven against it.

Part I. Government 1909