[f. as prec. + -ING2.] Making effeminate or unmanly; enervating.
1676. Wycherley, Pl. Dealer, III. i. (1677), 33. Thou art as hard to shake off as that flattering effeminating mischief, Love.
1757. Herald (1758), I. 91. Effeminating luxury.
1860. Emerson, Cond. Life (1861), 121. I … find the religions of men … unmanly and effeminating.
