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Effeminately   Listen
adverb
Effeminately  adv.  
1.
In an effeminate or womanish manner; weakly; softly; delicately. "Proud and effeminately gay."
2.
By means of a woman; by the power or art of a woman. (R.) "Effeminately vanquished."





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"Effeminately" Quotes from Famous Books



... had a share in the young boy's honor or disgrace; and there goes a story that one of them was fined by the magistrates, because the lad whom he loved cried out effeminately as he was fighting. And though this sort of love was so approved among them, that the most virtuous matrons would make professions of it to young girls, yet rivalry did not exist, and if several men's fancies met in one person, ...
— Plutarch's Lives • A.H. Clough
... dived into the public-house, and told a dark seedy man, with his black hair plastered and rolled effeminately, that he had got a bloke who would stand a quid for a mount. The two came out, and the plastered Italian went to the stables: the melancholy punster conducted Henry into the arena, and stood beside him like Patience on a monument. Presently a quiet mare ...
— Put Yourself in His Place • Charles Reade


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