No Encyclopedia Entry for Effeminate Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language 1. (a.) Having some characteristic of a woman, as delicacy, luxuriousness, etc.; soft or delicate to an unmanly degree; womanish; weak. 2. (a.) Womanlike; womanly; tender; -- in a good sense. 3. (v. t.) To make womanish; to make soft and delicate; to weaken. 4. (v. i.) To grow womanish or weak.
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