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Effeminacy


EFFEM'INACY, noun [from effeminate.] The softness, delicacy and weakness in men, which are characteristic of the female sex, but which in males are deemed a reproach; unmanly delicacy; womanish softness or weakness.

1. Voluptuousness; indulgence in unmanly pleasures; lasciviousness.