[f. EFFEMINATE v. + -ING1.] The action or process of rendering effeminate; unmanly softening or weakening.
1555. Eden, Decades W. Ind. (Arb.), 190. They make rather to theffeminatynge of the myndes of men.
1710. Lady M. W. Montague, Lett., lxvii. II. 110. We are permitted no books but such as tend to the … effeminating of the mind.
