effeminate
adjective
(of a man or boy) having traits, tastes, habits, etc., traditionally considered feminine, as softness or delicacy.
effemination
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a word derived from
effeminate.
Example Sentences
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The congenital nature of homosexuality has been assumed more particularly in those cases which are described respectively as effemination and viraginity.
From The Sexual Life of the Child by Eden Paul
Juvenal wrote in scathing, searing sarcasm of the degeneracy of the Roman youth; effemination was very prevalent, and this bitter satirist wrote burning words against their degrading and bestial practices.
From Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire by James Weir
One of the most interesting chapters of his work is devoted to what Herodotus called Νοὑσος φἡλεια among the Scythians, a wide-spread effemination prevailing in a wild warlike and nomadic race.
From A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists by John Addington Symonds
Von Krafft-Ebing and many other writers have assumed that the characteristics of effemination and of viraginity are displayed in early childhood.
From The Sexual Life of the Child by Eden Paul
In this article I have described only mild types of viraginity and effemination.
From Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire by James Weir
