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Effeminate
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To make womanish; to make soft and delicate; to weaken. It will not corrupt or effeminate children's minds. Locke.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To grow womanish or weak. In a slothful peace both courage will effeminate and manners corrupt. Pope.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
1. Having some characteristic of a woman, as delicacy, luxuriousness, etc.; soft or delicate to an unmanly degree; womanish; weak. The king, by his voluptuous life and mean marriage, became effeminate, and less sensible of honor. Bacon. An effeminate and unmanly foppery. Bp. Hurd.
2. Womanlike; womanly; tender; -- in a good sense. Gentle, kind, effeminate remorse. Shak.