effeminated
effeminated adjective: having feminine qualities; effeminate. Also the simple past and past participle of effeminate.
Adjective
effeminated (comparative more effeminated, superlative most effeminated)
- Having feminine qualities; effeminate.
- whereas, presently upon his censure at this time, his ambition was moderated, his pride humbled, and the means of his former injustice and corruption removed, you would he not relinquish the practice of his most horrible and secret sin of sodomy, keeping still one Godrich, a very effeminated youth...1834, Letters of the Duke and Duchess of Buckingham, page xv
- So we get him between the upper and nether mill-stones of a compusory law that requires him to go, and a baffled teacher who forbids him to come– till he is fit for nothing but the reform-school, or the jail, where at last he encounters that physical force which our effeminated public opinion was...1886, Ford's Christian Repository - Volumes 41-42, page 300
Also used as
effeminated is also the simple past and past participle of effeminate.
Examples of effeminated in a sentence
- While all readers of Praxis occupy the effeminated reader position and double-read, within that position, readers are interpellated as feminists, and as feminist women in particular.1991, Lisa Maria Hogeland, Re-visionary Heteroglossia, page 298:
- Lisa Jardine sees Viola as an effeminated male, as does Stephen Greenblatt .2000, Mary Bly, Queer Virgins and Virgin Queans on the Early Modern Stage, page 57:
- The emperor fortunately did not want to demolish the Alhambra but he tried "to conserve it, but reduced, neutralized and effeminated".2012, D.M. Mark, Andrew U. Frank, Cognitive and Linguistic Aspects of Geographic Space, page 59:
- Echoing standard eighteenth-century moral-philosophical platitudes, ancient Highland society is portrayed as "manly" and noble, in contrast with the "effeminated" state of civilizatioon and luxury.2013, Matthew Wickman, The Ruins of Experience:
Forms of effeminated
| comparative | more effeminated |
|---|---|
| superlative | most effeminated |
Words formed from effeminated
Questions about effeminated
- What does effeminated mean?
- Effeminated means having feminine qualities; effeminate.
- How do you use effeminated in a sentence?
- While all readers of Praxis occupy the effeminated reader position and double-read, within that position, readers are interpellated as feminists, and as feminist women in particular.
- What part of speech is effeminated?
- Effeminated is an adjective.
Words near effeminated in the dictionary
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