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Webster 1913 Edition

Effeminacy

Ef-fem′i-na-cy

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Noun.
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pl.
Effeminacies
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[From
Effeminate
.]
Characteristic quality of a woman, such as softness, luxuriousness, delicacy, or weakness, which is unbecoming a man; womanish delicacy or softness; – used reproachfully of men.
Milton.

Webster 1828 Edition

Effeminacy

EFFEM'INACY

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Noun.
[from effeminate.] The softness, delicacy and weakness in men, which are characteristic of the female sex, but which in males are deemed a reproach; unmanly delicacy; womanish softness or weakness.
1.
Voluptuousness; indulgence in unmanly pleasures; lasciviousness.

Definition 2024

effeminacy

effeminacy

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Noun

effeminacy ‎(countable and uncountable, plural effeminacies)

  1. The quality of being effeminate.

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