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Definition of Effeminates
1. effeminate [n] - See also: effeminate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Effeminates
Literary usage of Effeminates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Church, the Renaissance and Protestantism: Lectures Given at by Alfred Baudrillart (1907)
"8 These labourers and effeminates—as a historian has eloquently said— decided,
nevertheless, the fate of France and of religion as far as such a work is ..."
2. Six discourses on the functions of the lungs, and causes, prevention and by Samuel Sheldon Fitch (1856)
"I have before remarked, you must not wear too much clothing, as it effeminates
the skin. All your clothing should allow of ventilation of the skin, ..."
3. English Synonyms Discriminated by William Taylor (1856)
"That sensibility effeminates which flinches at helping to relieve. To DISSIPATE.
To DILAPIDATE. To dissipate is to scatter away, and to dilapidate is to ..."
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