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womanize, v.|ˈwʊmənaɪz|
[f. woman n. + -ize.]
1. trans. To make a woman of (a man); gen. to render effeminate, to emasculate.
1593[see womanish v., quot. a 1586]. 1643Torshell Case Consc. 9 Wee may not now suffer the thoughts of safety elsewhere to womanize our spirits. 1647Stapylton Juvenal 19 margin, The Roman Sardinapali, men womanized. 1755Johnson, Womanise, to emasculate; to effeminate; to soften. Proper, but not used. 1782V. Knox Ess. No. 156 ⁋5 To vitiate their morals, to womanize their spirits. 1853Lytton in Lett. Robt. 1st Earl Lytton (1906) I. 40 Don't let Italy womanise you. 1881Meredith Tragic Com. I. vii. 146 Men who have the woman in them without being womanized.
†2. intr. To become womanlike; to behave like a woman. Obs.
1604Earl Stirling Crœsus iii. ii. F 3, From the height of Honour to digresse, To womanize with courtly vaine delights. 1613Wither Abuses ii. Juvenilia (1633) 232 Such as can So much degenerate themselves from Man, In tyre and gesture both to womanize. 1736Bailey (fol.).
3. To consort illicitly with women. colloq.
1893Farmer & Henley Slang, Goose..to go wenching: to womanize. 1914C. Mackenzie Sinister St. iii. xii, The Bad Men went up to London and womanized.
Hence ˈwomanized ppl. a., in senses of the verb; also, rendered womanly; ˈwomanizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.; womaniˈzation; ˈwomanizer, one who goes after or consorts illicitly with women.
1624Gee Foot out of Snare 62 Fit..to act a womanized Chaerea in Terence his Eunuchus. 1633Drummond of Hawthornden Entert. K. Chas. iv. 31 Gorgeous rayments, womanising toyes. 1634T. Johnson Parey's Chirurg. i. xi. (1678) 17 These are some womanizing or womanish men. 1775Ash, Womanizing, the act of softening down to the qualities of a woman. 1839Mrs. Kirkland New Home xviii. 121 The womanized tone of the proud and happy mother. 1878M. C. Jackson Chaperon's Cares iii, She is a womanized likeness of poor Edward. 1914A. Harrison Kaiser's War v. 141 The growing softness of life beyond the Fatherland—the world's general womanization, as they [sc. Germans] called it. 1924Galsworthy White Monkey ii. ix, Somehow..I feel he's a womaniser. |