v. Now rare. [f. EFFEMIN-ATE a. + -IZE.] trans. To render effeminate or womanish in character or appearance.

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c. 1612.  Sylvester, Du Bartas (1621), 1083. His braue Knights effeminiz’d by Sloath.

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1616.  R. C., Times’ Whis., iii. 970. A lovelocke … Doth the lewd wearer quite effeminize.

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1836.  Donaldson, Theat. Greeks (ed. 4), 376. The tragic poets … effeminized them.

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1863.  Lytton, in Blackw. Mag., Sept., 269/2. He [Pope] is considered less to have improved upon than effeminised Dryden’s style.

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  Hence Effeminized ppl. a., Effeminizing ppl. a.

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1824.  Blackw. Mag., XVI. 162. Enthusiasm … inspired … by the effeminizing sensuality of Moore.

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1881.  Ld. Lytton, in 19th Cent., Nov., 769. Our present somewhat effeminised civilisation. Ibid., 774. It tends to encourage … an effeminising influence in English poetry.

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