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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Feminité, -itie, n. Also: femynité, faminitie. [ME. femynytie, -yté, femenyté (Chaucer), OF. feminité.]
a. Womanhood, womankind. b. Addiction to women.a. 1461 Liber Plusc. I. 385.
Quhat mycht God mare do … Bot dow hire … With all bewteis of fresche feminite a1500 Henr. Test. Cress. 80.
How was thow fortunait To change in filth all thy feminitie 1533 Boece x. xiii. 381.
Thai changeit … all thare femynite in hardyment & manlynes 1535 Stewart 17851.
Fair Alena … Quhilk wes the flour of all faminitie c1550 Rolland Ct. Venus iv. 438.
As ȝe ar flour of all feminite, Grant him his life, and mak him anis freb. 1535 Stewart 3068.
He gaif him alway … To fleschlie lust and foull faminitie Ib. 23761.
In Albione wes neuir king befoir … Foullar infectit with faminitie
