womanish
suomi-englanti sanakirjawomanish englannista suomeksi
naismainen, naisellinen
Verbi
womanish englanniksi
Characteristic of a woman; effeminate, feminine. (defdate)
(RQ:Shakespeare Julius Caesar) Romans novv / Haue Thevves, and Limbes, like to their Anceſtors; / But vvoe the vvhile, our Fathers mindes are dead, / And vve are gouern'd vvith our Mothers ſpirits, / Our yoake, and ſufferance, ſhevv vs VVomaniſh.
(RQ:Austen Sanditon)
(RQ:Landon Romance)
(RQ:Russell Western Philosophy)
1982, (w), ''Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (qualifier), p. 753:
- Perhaps he did too, for he turned scarlet and turned his face away to the wall, with a womanish gesture of shyness.
Carried out by or pertaining to a woman. (defdate)
(RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)
To make womanish.
(syn)
(quote-book)|chapter_tlr=Thomas Hoby|chapter=The First Booke of the Courtier of Count Baldessar Castilio, vnto Maister Alphonsus Ariosto|title=Book of the Courtier|The Courtyer of Count Baldessar Castilio Diuided into Foure Bookes.(nb...)|location=London|publisher=(...) Seres|vvyllyam Seres(nb...)|year=1561|section=signature I.ii., recto|sectionurl=https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1475-1640_the-courtyer-of-count-ba_1561/page/n90/mode/1up|passage=Then the ''L''(quote-gloss) ''Gaſpar'' (quote-gloss), I beleue muſicke (quoth he) together with many other vanities is mete foꝛ women, ⁊ paraduenture foꝛ ſome alſo that haue the lykenes of men, but not foꝛ them that be men in dede: who ought not with ſuche delicacies to womanniſhe (transterm) their mindes, and bꝛynge themſelues in that ſoꝛt to dꝛead death.
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(RQ:Sidney Arcadia): (..)
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) Kingston for Richard Iones|date=1 May 1583|passage=But béeing vſed in publique aſſemblies and pꝛiuate conuenticles as directoꝛies to filthie dauncing, thoꝛow the ſwéet harmonie ⁊ ſmoothe melodie therof, it (quote-gloss) eſtraungeth yͤ mind / ſtireth vp filthie luſt, womanniſheth yͤ minde / rauiſheth the hart, enflameth concupiſence, and bꝛingeth in vncleannes.
*(quote-book)|volume=II|location=London|publisher=& Co.|Cramer, Beale, & Chappell,(nb...)|year=1857|page=406|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/popularmusicov2185559chap/page/406/mode/1up|passage=He (quote-gloss) complains of music “being used in public assemblies and private conventicles as a directory to ''filthy'' dancing;” and that “through the sweet harmony and smooth melody thereof, it estrangeth the mind, stirreth up lust, womanisheth the mind, and ravisheth the heart.”