adv. [f. EFFEMINATE a. + -LY2.]
1. In an effeminate or unmanly manner or style.
1528. Tindale, Obed. Chr. Man., in Wks. (1573), 143. That white rocherte that the Byshops … weare so like a Nunne, and so effeminatly.
1555. Eden, Decades W. Ind., III. I. (Arb.), 138. Effeminately decked.
1611. Cotgr., Laschement … coldly, faintly, effeminately.
1638. Brathwait, Hist. Surv. (1651), 306. A youth too curiously and effeminately drest.
1697. Potter, Antiq. Greece (1715), I. I. xxvi. 172. If any one … take hire for him [a Boy] to be effeminately embrac’d.
1701. W. Wotton, Hist. Rome, 339. The Roman Soldiers had lived too effeminately to fight well.
1840. Marryat, Olla Podr., I. xxv. 267. They … are … a small and very effeminately built race.
1881. J. Hawthorne, Fort. Fool, I. xix. He’s not effeminately lovely.
† 2. ? Through degrading passion for a woman.
1671. Milton, Samson, 562. To let in the foe, Effeminately vanquished.
