2. Verb. (present participle of feminise) ¹
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Definition of Feminising
1. feminise [v] - See also: feminise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Feminising
Literary usage of Feminising
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lives of the Queens of England: From the Norman Conquest by Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland (1852)
"... the addition of the feminising я having probably been omitted in some of the
copies of the circular, of which we gire the transcript. ..."
2. Women Painters of the World: From the Time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to by Walter Shaw Sparrow (1905)
"... to say that these women artists copied their masters, or slavishly imitated
them, but they transposed their qualities, elevated them by feminising them. ..."
3. Characters and Events of Roman History, from Caesar to Nero: The Lowell by Guglielmo Ferrero (1909)
"... me the most important in contemporary European life, the feminising of all
social life j that is, the victory of the feminine over the masculine spirit. ..."
4. The Women of a State University: An Illustration of the Working of by Helen Maria (Remington) Olin (1909)
"In 1886 came the first, and, so far as observed, the last official notice of the
danger of feminising ..."
5. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1905)
"... that being the name of the ward she had charge of, and which the boys insisted
on feminising into Lazarette—scolded them, laughed with them, ..."
6. Woman in Transition by Annette M. B. Meakin (1907)
"... the increasing sexual specialisation of higher social development;* and
scientists are beginning to ponder over the question how far feminising and ..."
7. Freedom's Children by Helen Wilkinson, Geoff Mulgan (1995)
"The masculinisation of young women The feminising of men is being matched by the
masculinisation of women. The table below shows just how much younger women ..."
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