Feminine

//ˈfɛmɪnɪn//

"Feminine" in a Sentence (18 examples)

Susie wasn't very feminine.

Ellie is very feminine.

We like to look feminine.

Some women look more masculine than feminine.

She has a feminine insight into human behavior.

She is a very feminine person.

If a woman masturbates, she will secrete female hormones and become more feminine.

With the first election of a woman into the seat of chancellor, the feminine complement of the word, "chancelière," was chosen as the Word of the Year in 2005 by the Academy of German Language.

With the first election of a woman into the seat of Chancellorship, the word "Bundeskanzlerin," as a feminine noun for the title, was voted Word of the Year in 2005 by the Academy of German Language.

Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received. Of itself it has nothing but the empty forms of its operation.

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Mary, Elizabeth, and Edith are feminine names.

Her heavenly form Angelic, but more soft and feminine.

Her letters are remarkably deficient in feminine ease and grace.

Ninias being esteemed no man of warre at all, but altogether feminine, and subject to ease and delicacy.

Women's names were formed in the same way as men's, but with feminine terminations […]

Feminine caesura, feminine catalexis, feminine ending, feminine rhyme.

They guide the feminines toward the Pallace.

These changes being understood, it is easy to see how inaccurate it is to talk of she being the feminine, and they being the plural, of he. The different words belong to dif­fer­ent systems, and are no more the masculines and feminines of one another, than (to use a well-known illustration) puss is the vocative case of cat.

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