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单词 effeminately
释义 effeminately, adv.|ɛˈfɛmɪnətlɪ|
[f. effeminate a. + -ly2.]
1. In an effeminate or unmanly manner or style.
1528Tindale Obed. Chr. Man. in Wks. (1573) 143 That white rocherte that the Byshops..weare so like a Nunne, and so effeminatly.1555Eden Decades W. Ind. iii. i. (Arb.) 138 Effeminately decked.1611Cotgr., Laschement..coldly, faintly, effeminately.1638R. Brathwait Hist. Surv. (1651) 306 A youth too curiously and effeminately drest.1697Potter Antiq. Greece (1715) I. i. xxvi. 172 If any one..take hire for him [a Boy] to be effeminately embraced.1701W. Wotton Hist. Rome 359 The Roman Soldiers had lived too effeminately to fight well.1836Marryat Olla Podr. xxv, They..are..a..very effeminately built race.1881J. Hawthorne Fort. Fool i. xix, He's not effeminately lovely.
2. ? Through degrading passion for a woman.
1671Milton Samson 562 To let in the foe, Effeminately vanquished.
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