"effeminated" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Forms: more effeminated [comparative], most effeminated [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} effeminated (comparative more effeminated, superlative most effeminated)
  1. (often derogatory) Having feminine qualities; effeminate. Tags: derogatory, often Derived forms: uneffeminated
    Sense id: en-effeminated-en-adj-gJihy26G Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 92 8 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 90 10 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 92 8

Verb [English]

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} effeminated
  1. simple past and past participle of effeminate Tags: form-of, participle, past Form of: effeminate
    Sense id: en-effeminated-en-verb-3QOx-Xmc
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          "ref": "1834, Letters of the Duke and Duchess of Buckingham, page xv:",
          "text": "whereas, presently upon his censure at this time, his ambition was moderated, his pride humbled, and the means of his former injustice and corruption removed, you would he not relinquish the practice of his most horrible and secret sin of sodomy, keeping still one Godrich, a very effeminated youth, to be his catamite and bed-fellow,",
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          "ref": "1886, Ford's Christian Repository - Volumes 41-42, page 300:",
          "text": "So we get him between the upper and nether mill-stones of a compusory law that requires him to go, and a baffled teacher who forbids him to come– till he is fit for nothing but the reform-school, or the jail, where at last he encounters that physical force which our effeminated public opinion was afraid to have touch him in the first place, when it might have saved him.",
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          "ref": "1991, Lisa Maria Hogeland, Re-visionary Heteroglossia, page 298:",
          "text": "While all readers of Praxis occupy the effeminated reader position and double-read, within that position, readers are interpellated as feminists, and as feminist women in particular.",
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          "ref": "2000, Mary Bly, Queer Virgins and Virgin Queans on the Early Modern Stage, page 57:",
          "text": "Lisa Jardine sees Viola as an effeminated male, as does Stephen Greenblatt .",
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          "ref": "2012, D.M. Mark, Andrew U. Frank, Cognitive and Linguistic Aspects of Geographic Space, page 59:",
          "text": "The emperor fortunately did not want to demolish the Alhambra but he tried \"to conserve it, but reduced, neutralized and effeminated\".",
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          "ref": "2013, Matthew Wickman, The Ruins of Experience:",
          "text": "Echoing standard eighteenth-century moral-philosophical platitudes, ancient Highland society is portrayed as \"manly\" and noble, in contrast with the \"effeminated\" state of civilizatioon and luxury.",
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