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Definition of Defeminized
1. defeminize [v] - See also: defeminize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Defeminized
Literary usage of Defeminized
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1900)
"Some urge that the most defeminized of these specimens, who are so prone to
diminutives suggesting endearment, who lavish affection upon dolls, cats, ..."
2. Putnam's Magazine (1908)
"A critic who publicly complained of her that she had " defeminized "
and "denationalized" herself stated her case more flatteringly than he ..."
3. Putnam's Magazine (1908)
"A critic who publicly complained of her that she had "defeminized" and "denationalized"
herself stated her case more flatteringly than he ..."
4. Woman Through the Ages by Emil Reich (1909)
"To see her defeminized in armour and depraved in body means loss of idealism,
and leaves man the poorer. Woman, as typified in this Countess of Salisbury, ..."
5. Woman and Womanhood: A Search for Principles by Caleb Williams Saleeby (1911)
"... well worth enlisting in the army that fights for womanhood to-day, whose
organic repugnance to the defeminized woman is so intense, and whose perception ..."
6. Success Among Nations by Emil Reich (1904)
"If she takes to business she appears to become defeminized in the act; she has
a tendency to degenerate into Mrs. ..."
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