MASCULINE


Meaning of MASCULINE in English

adjective

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■ ADVERB

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Not a dangerous disposition I think; though it might be if my nature were more masculine &038; daring.

■ NOUN

form

From a very early age, lower-working-class boys engage in rough, exclusively masculine forms of play, free of adult supervision.

He stuttered nervously before managing to answer herand when he did, he used the masculine form of address.

But there was nothing quaint about the masculine form that adorned it.

This situation would make the use of the masculine form in this instance highly marked.

He has their virtues translated into masculine form .

identity

In Jacobean drama masculine identity requires masculine ratification.

The quadrature that Lacan describes is that of masculine identity .

First and most obviously perhaps, it shows how homophobia is often integral to a conventional kind of masculine identity .

Other male roles, other styles of masculine identity , must be learned or created.

subject

The principal feminist challenge to psychology's predominantly male subjects and masculine subject matter is, again, an egalitarian one.

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Even today, men tend to do such masculine tasks as car maintenance and yard work.

He wanted to say he was sorry but his masculine pride wouldn't let him.

Violence is an extreme form of traditionally masculine behaviour.

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Feminist campaigns around the state effectively unmasked the unofficial masculine culture of politicians, experts and administrators.

I heard from Bridget there's some kind of row going on about masculine endings.

Language is masculine: It operates according to a masculine economy of representation.

The quadrature that Lacan describes is that of masculine identity.

There was an aura of masculine occupation - neat, but unmistakably masculine.

You may be wondering why I called the various machines by masculine names.

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