Read full poem →Who scarce the name of manhood did retain,
Drenchèd in sloth and womanish delight,
Feeble of sprite, unpatient of pain,
Dictionary Entry
Characteristic of a woman; feminine; effeminate.
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Poetry examples for “womanish”
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Read full poem →Disdained, or was ashamed to show,
So weak, so womanish a woe,
Which yet the brother and the friend so plenteously confest.