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Ewig-weibliche

[ ey-vikh-vahyp-li-khuh ]

noun

, German.
  1. the eternal feminine.


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Example Sentences

The "Ewig-Weibliche" favors exaggeration, mysticism, sentimentalism—all that excites and startles.

Rahel herself never overstepped the limits of "das Ewig-Weibliche."

He had a keen sense for the feminine element—the ewig Weibliche—and expressed it plastically with a zest approaching gusto.

He died about 1320, and his works, as his nickname suggests, were imbued with das ewig weibliche in its best sense.

Was it not the "Ewig-Weibliche" that allows no prestige but its own?

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