Definition of "effeminated" [effeminated]

• Simple past tense and past participle of effeminate. (verb)

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• "Or this diplomat Carl Jacob Burkhard put it in a similar way: He found him mostly effeminated."
• "They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive."
• "He contemplated his picture — he shrunk from it, but he could change its deformity only by an effort too nobly daring for a mind already effeminated by vice."