单词 | mollitude |
释义 | mollituden. Now rare. Softness; effeminacy; luxuriousness.In quot. 1767 used in a parody of Johnsonian style. ΘΚΠ the world > life > sex and gender > female > effeminacy > [noun] effeminateness1558 effeminacy1571 gingerliness1583 mollitude1599 mollities1604 invirility1628 femality?1643 womanlishness1648 feminity1669 ladyness1671 Miss Mollyism1834 femininity1855 Miss Nancyism1860 sissiness1892 camp1909 sissification1910 camping1922 lavender1929 1599 J. Rainolds Overthrow Stage-playes 137 The man (if you will needes haue such resemblances) bee compared rather to Mollitude, or Cowardnes, the woman to Incontinence. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Mollitude, softness, niceness, tenderness, effeminateness, wantonness. 1767 A. Campbell Lexiphanes 11 A perennial mollitude of manners. 1969 V. Nabokov Ada ii. iii. 353 I had visited bordels since my sixteenth year, but..nothing about them pre-announced the luxury and mollitude of my first Villa Venus. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1599 |
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