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Definition of "effeminating" []

  • Present participle of effeminate. (verb)

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Use "effeminating" in a sentence
  • "I have called out the women here when they cross the line with feminist diatribes, and answered emasculating jibes with equally effeminating cuts."
  • "We are permitted no books but such as tend to the weakening and effeminating of the mind."
  • "Tarzan blamed this weakness, as he considered it, upon his association with the effeminating influences of civilization, for in the bottom of his savage heart he held in contempt both civilization and its representatives -- the men and women of the civilized countries of the world."