Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being or the act of making effeminate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Effeminacy; womanishness.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete effeminacy; womanishness

Etymologies

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Latin effeminatio.

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