fœminine
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]fœminine (comparative more fœminine, superlative most fœminine)
- (hypercorrect) Obsolete form of feminine.
- 1603, Plutarch, “Of the Naturall Love or Kindnes of Parents to Their Children”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, page 220:
- [T]hey have a power and facultie, by a milde heat of the naturall ſpirits within them, and with a delicate and fœminine tenderneſſe, to concoct, digeſt, change and convert it into another nature and qualitie, for that the paps have within them naturally, the like temperature and diſpoſition anſwerable unto it: […]
French
[edit]Adjective
[edit]fœminine