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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 Paul, Eden

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 Weir, James

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 Symonds, John Addington

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 Paul, Eden

During the reign of Louis XV., examples of effemination crowded into the court and vied with the royal fop in the splendor of their raiment and effeminacy of their bearing.

From Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire by Weir, James