adv. [f. as prec. + -LY2.] In a feminine manner, like a woman; womanishly. Also, in the feminine gender.
1649. R. Roberts, Clavis Bibliorum, 365. Nor as any peculiar Dialect of this tongue, using this word sometimes femininely.
1814. Byron, Lara, I. xxvii.
| Nor mark of vulgar toil that hand betrays, | |
| So femininely white it might bespeak | |
| Another sex, when match’d with that smooth cheek. | |
| Ibid. (1821), Juan, V. lxxx. | |
| And now being femininely all array’d, | |
| With some small aid from scissars, paint, and tweezers, | |
| He look’d in almost all respects a maid. |
1859. Tennyson, Enid, 1123.
| And midmost of a rout of roisterers, | |
| Femininely fair and dissolutely pale. |
