Word of the Day
for Sunday,
May 12, 2013
Feminacy \FEM-uh-nuh-see\, noun:
feminine nature.
Educated even to
learning, courageous even to a want of feminacy,
she delighted to sport with ignorance and pretension, even in the highest
places...
-- Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, Ernest Maltravers, 1837
-- Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, Ernest Maltravers, 1837
As they coached her in
movements of preposterous feminacy,
coaxing her to sit neatly and ease her muscles out of sight.
-- Paul West, The Tent of Orange Mist, 1997
-- Paul West, The Tent of Orange Mist, 1997
Feminacy entered English in the 18th century from the Latin roots fēmin
meaning "woman" and -acy,
a suffix denoting nouns of quality, such as papacy
and legacy.
Thanks to: www.dictionary.com
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