Her letters are remarkably deficient in feminine
ease and grace. --Macaulay.
2. Having the qualities of a woman; becoming or appropriate
to the female sex; as, in a good sense, modest, graceful,
affectionate, confiding; or, in a bad sense, weak,
nerveless, timid, pleasure-loving, effeminate.
Her heavenly form Angelic, but more soft and
feminine. --Milton.
Ninus being esteemed no man of war at all, but
altogether feminine, and subject to ease and
delicacy. --Sir W.
Raleigh.
They guide the feminines toward the palace.
--Hakluyt.
2. (Gram.) Any one of those words which are the appellations
of females, or which have the terminations usually found
in such words; as, actress, songstress, abbess, executrix.
There are but few true feminines in English.
--Latham.