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单词 effeminize
释义 effeminize, v. Now rare.|ɛˈfɛmɪnaɪz|
[f. effemin-ate a. + -ize.]
trans. To render effeminate or womanish in character or appearance.
c1612Sylvester Du Bartas (1621) 1083 His braue Knights effeminiz'd by Sloath.1616R. C. Times' Whis. iii. 970 A lovelocke..Doth the lewd wearer quite effeminize.1836Donaldson Theat. Greeks (ed. 4) 376 The tragic poets..effeminized them.1863Blackw. Mag. Sept. 269 [Pope] is considered..to have..effeminised Dryden's style.
Hence eˈffeminized ppl. a., eˈffeminizing ppl. a.
1824Blackw. Mag. XVI. 162 Enthusiasm..inspired..by the effeminizing sensuality of Moore.1881Ld. Lytton in 19th C. Nov. 769 Our present somewhat effeminised civilisation.Ibid. 774 It tends to encourage..an effeminising influence in English poetry.
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