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effeminate
(encz) | effeminate,přecitlivělý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
effeminate
(encz) | effeminate,zženštilý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Effeminate
(gcide) | Effeminate \Ef*fem"i*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Effeminated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Effeminating.]
To make womanish; to make soft and delicate; to weaken.
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It will not corrupt or effeminate children's minds.
--Locke.
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Effeminate
(gcide) | Effeminate \Ef*fem"i*nate\, v. i.
To grow womanish or weak.
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In a slothful peace both courage will effeminate and
manners corrupt. --Pope.
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Effeminate
(gcide) | Effeminate \Ef*fem"i*nate\, a. [L. effeminatus, p. p. of
effeminare to make a woman of; ex out + femina a woman. See
Feminine, a.]
1. Having some characteristic of a woman, as delicacy,
luxuriousness, etc.; soft or delicate to an unmanly
degree; womanish; weak.
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The king, by his voluptuous life and mean marriage,
became effeminate, and less sensible of honor.
--Bacon.
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An effeminate and unmanly foppery. --Bp. Hurd.
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2. Womanlike; womanly; tender; -- in a good sense.
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Gentle, kind, effeminate remorse. --Shak.
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Note: Effeminate and womanish are generally used in a
reproachful sense; feminine and womanly, applied to
women, are epithets of propriety or commendation.
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effeminate
(wn) | effeminate
adj 1: having unsuitable feminine qualities [syn: effeminate,
emasculate, epicene, cissy, sissified,
sissyish, sissy] |
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effeminate
(encz) | effeminate,přecitlivělý adj: Zdeněk Brožeffeminate,zženštilý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
effeminateness
(encz) | effeminateness, n: |
Effeminated
(gcide) | Effeminate \Ef*fem"i*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Effeminated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Effeminating.]
To make womanish; to make soft and delicate; to weaken.
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It will not corrupt or effeminate children's minds.
--Locke.
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Effeminately
(gcide) | Effeminately \Ef*fem"i*nate*ly\, adv.
1. In an effeminate or womanish manner; weakly; softly;
delicately. "Proud and effeminately gay." --Fawkes.
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2. By means of a woman; by the power or art of a woman. [R.]
"Effeminately vanquished." --Milton.
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Effeminateness
(gcide) | Effeminateness \Ef*fem"i*nate*ness\, n.
The state of being effeminate; unmanly softness. --Fuller.
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effeminate
(wn) | effeminate
adj 1: having unsuitable feminine qualities [syn: effeminate,
emasculate, epicene, cissy, sissified,
sissyish, sissy] |
effeminateness
(wn) | effeminateness
n 1: the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man); "the
students associated science with masculinity and arts with
effeminacy"; "Spartans accused Athenians of
effeminateness"; "he was shocked by the softness of the
atmosphere surrounding the young prince, arising from the
superfluity of the femininity that guided him" [syn:
effeminacy, effeminateness, sissiness, softness,
womanishness, unmanliness] |
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