femineity

The temperament of the two in their works is almost identical, having first allowed for the delicate femineity proper to every poet; and the richness that Browning lavishes till it strikes the world no more than the lavish gold of the sun, the lavish blue of the sky, Reade, taking warning, hoards, and lets out only by glimpses.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 Various

Miss Darley smiled rather faintly; the imagery was not just to her taste: _femineity_ often finds it very hard to accept the fact of

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 Various

Her name is perhaps meant to indicate her quality of inveterate femineity.

The Wagnerian Romances Gertrude Hall Brownell 1912

Impressionism, -- the one who has stated most precisely the femineity of this luminous and iridescent art.

The French Impressionists (1860-1900) Camille Mauclair 1908

Light of God! but she is a bewitching bundle of femineity.

The Doomsman Van Tassel Sutphen 1903

But, as the chemist prefers distilled H2 O in testing solutions to avoid complications and unwarranted reactions, so the Black Woman holds that her femineity linked with the impossibility of popular affinity or unexpected attraction through position and influence in her case makes her a touchstone of American courtesy exceptionally pure and singularly free from extraneous modifiers.

A Voice From the South Anna Julia 1892

With the mere instinct of femineity she saw the falseness of the assumption that the higher life for man or woman lies in separate and solitary paths through the wilderness of this world.

The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

Her voice had a quality the memory of which lingered longer even than the expression of her eyes; it was low, and, as one might say, a fruity voice, not quite clear, though sweet, as if veiled in femineity.

The Golden House Charles Dudley Warner 1864

With the mere instinct of femineity she saw the falseness of the assumption that the higher life for man or woman lies in separate and solitary paths through the wilderness of this world.

The Golden House Charles Dudley Warner 1864

Her voice had a quality the memory of which lingered longer even than the expression of her eyes; it was low, and, as one might say, a fruity voice, not quite clear, though sweet, as if veiled in femineity.

The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864