Manifestation of traits in a boy or man that are more often associated with femininity.
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A language of exhaustless variety; strong without ruggedness, and flexible without effeminacy.
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Yet, in spite of all this effeminacy, the appearance of Edward IV.
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These two Italian abbes were ne plus ultras in luxury and effeminacy.
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Grecian refinement was no longer despised; Grecian effeminacy had not yet prevailed.
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The ex-commercial traveller was astonished at the effeminacy engendered by provincial life.
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