effeminacyn.

Brit.

/ᵻˈfɛmᵻnəsi/, U.S.

/əˈfɛmənəsi/,

/iˈfɛmənəsi/

Forms: 1500s–1600s effeminacie, 1500s– effeminacy, 1600s effeminaty, 1600s effoeminacie, 1600s effoeminacy.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: effeminate adj., -acy suffix.

Etymology: < effeminate adj.: see -acy suffix. Compare earlier effeminateness n.

1. Usually depreciative.

(a) Quality or characteristics regarded or characterized as effeminate or feminine; esp. (in a man) lack of physical strength, courage, or vitality, a disposition to self-indulgence or sensual pleasure, etc. Also: an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > sex and gender > female > effeminacy > [noun]

effeminateness1558

effeminacy1571

gingerliness1583

mollitude1599

mollities1604

invirility1628

femality?1643

womanlishness1648

feminity1669

ladyness1671

Miss Mollyism1834

femininity1855

Miss Nancyism1860

sissiness1892

camp1909

sissification1910

camping1922

lavender1929

1571 T. Hill Contempl. Mankinde xiii. f.20^v Here in the first persons touching the colour of ye heares, and the effeminacie of parts, doth the Phisiognomer aptly apply the Moone and Venus.

1602 W. Warner Epitome Hist. Eng. in Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) 360 Finding..the Britons alienated from themselues through ease and effeminacie.

1626 T. Hawkins tr. N. Caussin Holy Court I. 13 A spirit soothed with its owne Effeminaty [Fr. delicatesse].

1633 W. Prynne Histrio-mastix 172 Is this a light, a despicable effeminacie, for men..thus purposely..to vnman, vnchristian, vncreate themselves?

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 104. ⁋2 His Features, Complexion, and Habit had a remarkable Effeminacy.

1747 R. Campbell London Tradesman xxxvii. 197 The Mercer traficks most with the Ladies, and has a small Dash of their Effeminacy in his Constitution.

1763 J. Brown Diss. Poetry & Music §7. 153 Their coarse manners melted gradually into false Politeness and Effeminacy.

1808 J. Mackintosh Jrnl. 6 Dec. in R. J. Mackintosh Mem. Life Sir J. Mackintosh (1835) I. ix. 507 Wakened with a dreadful head ach, which I ascribe to the volume of tobacco which filled the room... I was ashamed to own my effeminacy, but..I entrusted the secret to Captain Sydenham.

1854 J. H. Newman Lect. Hist. Turks iv. i. 210 A barbarous people, possessed of a beautiful country, may be relaxed in luxury and effeminacy.

1929 N.Y. Amsterdam News 22 May 7/7 Bare legs rob a girl of her modesty. They make her look bold, rob her of her effeminacy and lay her open to insulting remarks.

2018 Prospect (Nexis) 13 Dec. The doggedly cerebral and moderate Plato even thought use of perfumes led to effeminacy and depravity.

(b) spec. Speech, mannerisms, bearing, etc., in a man regarded as feminine, affected, or overly fastidious.Unambiguous examples of this sense are rare before the 19th cent.In later use often stereotypically associated with gay men.Now the usual sense.

ΚΠ

1720 J. Leigh Kensington-Gardens ii. 32 Bar. Sir John Thoughtless! O Lard, I know him, he wears an Amber-headed Cane. Spl. Yes, and is pointed at, for his Effeminacy. Bar. Effeminacy! Well, I vow and swear I wonder how Men can be so—Lard, as Nature has made 'em Men, can't they behave themselves Masculine, as I do!

1793 B. Vaughan Lett. Concert Princes App. 21 A lisping effeminacy is often a cover to the hardest of hearts.

1846 R. Bell Life G. Canning ii. 49 A gentlemanly contempt for the false and affected in real life and in literature suggests such themes for his ridicule as the mincing effeminacy of fops.

1899 19th Cent. June 916 Masculinity, not being proper to woman, is a thing with no relation to the fine thing called manliness, as effeminacy in man is no very noble rendering of the noble thing called womanliness.

1914 R. C. Cabot What Men work By iii. xxi. 178 This is no more shocking than masculinity in women, effeminacy or ‘old-womanishness’ in men.

1948 K. Tynan Let. 5 May (1994) ii. 150 He says..I have long hair, I support effeminacy, and I am ‘fragile.’

2014 New Yorker 1 Sept. 38/1 His parents, particularly his father, were mortified by his effeminacy. ‘My dad was a machista,’ he said. ‘He did not want a gay son.’

b. Chiefly in plural. A thing, attitude, value, etc., regarded or expressive of or arising from self-indulgence, sensuousness, affectation, excessive fastidiousness, etc. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1644 F. Quarles Loyall Convert 28 [Their] effeminacies have enerved the strength of their declining Kingdomes.

1662 R. Allestree Serm. preached at Hampton-Court 35 To harden him with discipline, that so the luxuries and the effeminacies of a Court might not emasculate and melt him.

1703 T. Baker Tunbridge-walks sig. A8^v Maiden, A Nice-Fellow, that values himself upon all Effeminacies.

1745 London Mag. Nov. 551/2 To scorn Umbrellas and Musketto-Nets, as Jamaican and Carolinean Effeminacies.

1814 Edinb. Rev. 24 65 The same florid effeminacies of style..in..an ecphrasis of Libanius, are harmless.

1873 Contemp. Rev. 22 699 The petrified assuetudes and porcelain effeminacies of the Chinese.

1927 Travel Nov. 44/3 Certainly in so doing he has made his life of Vanderbilt extraordinarily entertaining, tangy of our pioneer era when precise English was scorned as an effeminacy.

1954 Sunday Times 23 May 11/6 It is only fair to a great painter to say that these dexterous effeminacies [sc. some ‘delectable miniatures’] give only a partial impression of Braque's achievement.

†2. Apparently: excessive romantic or sexual interest in or devotion to women. Cf. effeminate adj. 2. Obsolete.It is hard to find unambiguous examples of this sense, which seems likely to have arisen either from the notion that indulgence in sensual (and esp. sexual) pleasures was an effeminate quality, or from the belief that close association with women, devotion to a wife or female lover, etc., fostered effeminate qualities in a man.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > lasciviousness or lust > [noun] > lust for women

effeminacy1642

effeminateness1648

1642 King Charles I His Maiesties Declar. & Manifestation to Souldiers at Southam 21 Oct. 6 Avoid..excessive drinking and effeminacy (by some esteemed the property of a souldier).

1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 410 But foul effeminacy held me yok't Her Bond-slave.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).

单词	effeminacy
释义	effeminacyn. Brit. /ᵻˈfɛmᵻnəsi/, U.S. /əˈfɛmənəsi/, /iˈfɛmənəsi/ Forms: 1500s–1600s effeminacie, 1500s– effeminacy, 1600s effeminaty, 1600s effoeminacie, 1600s effoeminacy. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: effeminate adj., -acy suffix. Etymology: < effeminate adj.: see -acy suffix. Compare earlier effeminateness n. 1. Usually depreciative. a. (a) Quality or characteristics regarded or characterized as effeminate or feminine; esp. (in a man) lack of physical strength, courage, or vitality, a disposition to self-indulgence or sensual pleasure, etc. Also: an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > life > sex and gender > female > effeminacy > [noun] effeminateness1558 effeminacy1571 gingerliness1583 mollitude1599 mollities1604 invirility1628 femality?1643 womanlishness1648 feminity1669 ladyness1671 Miss Mollyism1834 femininity1855 Miss Nancyism1860 sissiness1892 camp1909 sissification1910 camping1922 lavender1929 1571 T. Hill Contempl. Mankinde xiii. f.20^v Here in the first persons touching the colour of ye heares, and the effeminacie of parts, doth the Phisiognomer aptly apply the Moone and Venus. 1602 W. Warner Epitome Hist. Eng. in Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) 360 Finding..the Britons alienated from themselues through ease and effeminacie. 1626 T. Hawkins tr. N. Caussin Holy Court I. 13 A spirit soothed with its owne Effeminaty [Fr. delicatesse]. 1633 W. Prynne Histrio-mastix 172 Is this a light, a despicable effeminacie, for men..thus purposely..to vnman, vnchristian, vncreate themselves? 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 104. ⁋2 His Features, Complexion, and Habit had a remarkable Effeminacy. 1747 R. Campbell London Tradesman xxxvii. 197 The Mercer traficks most with the Ladies, and has a small Dash of their Effeminacy in his Constitution. 1763 J. Brown Diss. Poetry & Music §7. 153 Their coarse manners melted gradually into false Politeness and Effeminacy. 1808 J. Mackintosh Jrnl. 6 Dec. in R. J. Mackintosh Mem. Life Sir J. Mackintosh (1835) I. ix. 507 Wakened with a dreadful head ach, which I ascribe to the volume of tobacco which filled the room... I was ashamed to own my effeminacy, but..I entrusted the secret to Captain Sydenham. 1854 J. H. Newman Lect. Hist. Turks iv. i. 210 A barbarous people, possessed of a beautiful country, may be relaxed in luxury and effeminacy. 1929 N.Y. Amsterdam News 22 May 7/7 Bare legs rob a girl of her modesty. They make her look bold, rob her of her effeminacy and lay her open to insulting remarks. 2018 Prospect (Nexis) 13 Dec. The doggedly cerebral and moderate Plato even thought use of perfumes led to effeminacy and depravity. (b) spec. Speech, mannerisms, bearing, etc., in a man regarded as feminine, affected, or overly fastidious.Unambiguous examples of this sense are rare before the 19th cent.In later use often stereotypically associated with gay men.Now the usual sense. ΚΠ 1720 J. Leigh Kensington-Gardens ii. 32 Bar. Sir John Thoughtless! O Lard, I know him, he wears an Amber-headed Cane. Spl. Yes, and is pointed at, for his Effeminacy. Bar. Effeminacy! Well, I vow and swear I wonder how Men can be so—Lard, as Nature has made 'em Men, can't they behave themselves Masculine, as I do! 1793 B. Vaughan Lett. Concert Princes App. 21 A lisping effeminacy is often a cover to the hardest of hearts. 1846 R. Bell Life G. Canning ii. 49 A gentlemanly contempt for the false and affected in real life and in literature suggests such themes for his ridicule as the mincing effeminacy of fops. 1899 19th Cent. June 916 Masculinity, not being proper to woman, is a thing with no relation to the fine thing called manliness, as effeminacy in man is no very noble rendering of the noble thing called womanliness. 1914 R. C. Cabot What Men work By iii. xxi. 178 This is no more shocking than masculinity in women, effeminacy or ‘old-womanishness’ in men. 1948 K. Tynan Let. 5 May (1994) ii. 150 He says..I have long hair, I support effeminacy, and I am ‘fragile.’ 2014 New Yorker 1 Sept. 38/1 His parents, particularly his father, were mortified by his effeminacy. ‘My dad was a machista,’ he said. ‘He did not want a gay son.’ b. Chiefly in plural. A thing, attitude, value, etc., regarded or expressive of or arising from self-indulgence, sensuousness, affectation, excessive fastidiousness, etc. Now rare. ΚΠ 1644 F. Quarles Loyall Convert 28 [Their] effeminacies have enerved the strength of their declining Kingdomes. 1662 R. Allestree Serm. preached at Hampton-Court 35 To harden him with discipline, that so the luxuries and the effeminacies of a Court might not emasculate and melt him. 1703 T. Baker Tunbridge-walks sig. A8^v Maiden, A Nice-Fellow, that values himself upon all Effeminacies. 1745 London Mag. Nov. 551/2 To scorn Umbrellas and Musketto-Nets, as Jamaican and Carolinean Effeminacies. 1814 Edinb. Rev. 24 65 The same florid effeminacies of style..in..an ecphrasis of Libanius, are harmless. 1873 Contemp. Rev. 22 699 The petrified assuetudes and porcelain effeminacies of the Chinese. 1927 Travel Nov. 44/3 Certainly in so doing he has made his life of Vanderbilt extraordinarily entertaining, tangy of our pioneer era when precise English was scorned as an effeminacy. 1954 Sunday Times 23 May 11/6 It is only fair to a great painter to say that these dexterous effeminacies [sc. some ‘delectable miniatures’] give only a partial impression of Braque's achievement. †2. Apparently: excessive romantic or sexual interest in or devotion to women. Cf. effeminate adj. 2. Obsolete.It is hard to find unambiguous examples of this sense, which seems likely to have arisen either from the notion that indulgence in sensual (and esp. sexual) pleasures was an effeminate quality, or from the belief that close association with women, devotion to a wife or female lover, etc., fostered effeminate qualities in a man. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > lasciviousness or lust > [noun] > lust for women effeminacy1642 effeminateness1648 1642 King Charles I His Maiesties Declar. & Manifestation to Souldiers at Southam 21 Oct. 6 Avoid..excessive drinking and effeminacy (by some esteemed the property of a souldier). 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 410 But foul effeminacy held me yok't Her Bond-slave. View more context for this quotation This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < n.1571
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