[ad. L. effēminātiōn-em, f. effēmināre to EFFEMINATE.] The process of rendering or of becoming effeminate.
1650. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep. (ed. 2), III. xvii. 120. [The hare] figured … degenerous effemination.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., I. 36/2. I know a place in the Belly, not far from the Navel, which, if burnt [with moxa], a certain Effemination follows, without any hope of recovering a Man’s Virility.
