The ablest men in the movements which were now in progress were afraid of the traditions of indulgence and effeminacy which attached to the court at Kyōto.
Yoritomo did not, however, choose to establish himself at Kyōto amid the atmosphere of effeminacy which surrounded the court.
Abdication and effeminacy were gradually dragging down the Hōjō family to the same level as that of the shōguns and emperors.
We shall see in the chapters which follow the deplorable results of that system of effeminacy and nepotism, of abdication and regency, which Yoritomo had to resist, and which, had he lived twenty years more, his country might have escaped.
The court at Kamakura was now prepared to go on in its career of effeminacy after the pattern of that at Kyōto.
By this time the precedents of abdication and effeminacy began to tell upon the Ashikaga successors, and like all the preceding ruling families it gradually sank into the usual insignificance.
Long before this time the custom of abdication, and the habits of luxury and effeminacy in which the family of the shōgun was reared, had dragged the house down to the usual impotent level.
Yet Sir Philip has preserved so matchless a decorum, that neither does Pryocles' manhood suffer any stain for the effeminacy of Zelmane, nor is the respect due to the princesses at all diminished when the deception comes to be known.
A knock makes me nervous; but a ring is a positive fillip to all the sour passions of my nature:--and yet such is my effeminacy of temperament, I neither tie up the one nor dumbfound the other.
They had, according to the old chroniclers, * sunk into such effeminacy that they washed themselves once a week and combed their heads still more frequently.
Now, under Witica and Roderich, effeminacy and sloth led on to cowardice.
On the forenoon of the substituted day, after admitting some of the balmy air into my chamber, I decided that it was nonsense andeffeminacy to keep myself a prisoner any longer.
Showiness and effeminacy had taken the place of the grandeur and majesty which had formerly distinguished our kings.
In ancient times the effeminacy and luxury of the Cypriotes had passed into a proverb.
But the effeminacy of the people, especially of those in the higher ranks, made them the creatures of the army that protected them.
Then, effeminacy spreading even to the warriors, strength to resist internal disorders as well as external assaults gradually faded, and both caliphates fell.
A new school has arisen which combines the characteristics of effeminacy and brutality.
I have found by experience that many who have spent all their lives in cities, contract not only an effeminacyof habit but of thinking.
But this is either the language of corruption or of effeminacy and cowardice.
Nothing, humanly speaking, but luxury, effeminacy and corruption, can ever deprive us of this envied superiority.
Such a state of things appears very uncomfortable to us; but the Greeks had nothing of effeminacy about them; and we must not forget, too, the mildness of their climate.
In the accompanying music, he adopted all the innovations invented by Timotheus, and chose those melodies which were most in unison with the effeminacy of his own poetry.
While English society was noted for its rudeness and coarseness, it was saved from much of the effeminacy which poisoned the life of its neighbors on the continent.
Effeminacy reduced the sturdy morals of the Briton to the plane of those of their conquerors.
Accordingly when Cicero was reviled for his effeminacy by Verres, he replied, "A man should find fault with his sons at home.
Though the luxury and effeminacy in which he lived had not affected his courage, for he was a most daring man, yet now his heart failed him.
But we must not confound charity with weakness or effeminacy of character, for that would be to confound it with sentimentalism.
Here the lading is so arranged as to form a pretty level hollow, where the flat bundles containing their blankets are placed, and a couch is thus formed that rivals Eastern effeminacy in luxuriance.
Therefore effeminacy is not opposed to perseverance but to temperance.
Therefore effeminacy is not opposed to perseverance.
Hence it is clear that perseverance is commended for observing the mean, while pertinacity is reproved for exceeding the mean, and effeminacy for falling short of it.
Therefore effeminacyis not a vice opposed to perseverance.
Accordingly just as it belongs to effeminacy to be unable to endure toilsome things, so too it belongs thereto to desire play or any other relaxation inordinately.
Mollities, literally "softness"] Objection 1: It seems that effeminacyis not opposed to perseverance.
But properly speaking effeminacy regards lack of pleasures, while delicacy regards the cause that hinders pleasure, for instance toil or the like.
Now the sin of uncleanness or effeminacy would seem to be most contrary to nature, since it would seem especially in accord with nature that agent and patient should be distinct from one another.
But, besides ostentation, I wanted my attendant to be mounted, that we might make a forced march in order to ascertain how much a four years' life of European effeminacy had impaired my powers of endurance.
At this time effeminacy was the prevailing vice throughout the world .
The very faults of the architecture and effeminacy of taste witness the artists' object.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "effeminacy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: collapse; daintiness; delicacy; disintegration; fragility; frailty; irresolution; lightness
