1757. Mrs. Griffith, Lett. Hen. & Frances (1767), IV. 30. I … continue still … averse to the unfeminine Vanity of a literary Name.
1796. Mme. D’Arblay, Camilla, III. 301. What a lesson is this to youthful females against … the false brilliancy of unfeminine popularity!
1849. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vi. II. 69. She had … two brilliant eyes, the lustre of which, to men of delicate taste, seemed fierce and unfeminine.
1875. Mrs. Randolph, Wild Hyacinth, I. 14. Why should it be wrong and unfeminine for us to do anything except dress, and read novels, and play the piano?
Hence Unfeminineness.
1855. Miss Yonge, Daisy Chain, I. vi. if those high purposes should … grow out into eccentricities and unfemini[ne]nesses, what a grievous pity it would be! Ibid. (1876), Womankind, i. 7. She becomes ridiculous…, and renders him averse to the culture to which he erroneously ascribes her unfeminineness.
