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单词 effeminize
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effeminizev.

Brit. /ᵻˈfɛmᵻnʌɪz/, U.S. /əˈfɛməˌnaɪz/, /iˈfɛməˌnaɪz/
Forms: 1600s– effeminize, 1800s– effeminise.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: effeminate adj., -ize suffix.
Etymology: < effemin- (in effeminate adj.) + -ize suffix. Compare earlier effeminate v. and later feminize v.
Now often in historical contexts.
transitive. To make (a person or thing) effeminate or feminine in appearance, quality, character, etc. Frequently in passive.
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the world > life > sex and gender > female > effeminacy > [verb (transitive)]
effeminate1531
womanish1561
feminine1583
womanizea1586
hermaphroditize1598
unman1599
woman1611
smock1614
effeminizec1616
evirate1627
disman1628
lady1656
emolliate1802
c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) iii. 972 A lovelocke..Doth the lewd wearer quite effeminize.
a1618 J. Sylvester tr. P. Matthieu Henrie the Great in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 1083 His braue Knights, effeminiz'd by Sloath.
1734 Occas. Remarks on Proc. Last Parl. 25 I readily agree with you, that since that Herb [sc. tea] has been so much in Vogue we are more effeminized.
1812 Monthly Mag. July 148/2 Pupils..pampered and effeminized by improper diet, clothing, and confinement.
1863 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 269 [Pope] is considered..to have..effeminised Dryden's style.
1918 K. Kohler Jewish Theol. xix.121 The highest principle of ethics in Judaism..is not love, but justice. Love has the tendency to undermine the right and to effeminize society.
1960 Daily Tel. 8 July 23/6 Several countries..have banned the sale of oestrogen-treated American spring chickens because of the risk of effeminising men or boys eating them.
2014 Stud. Eng. Lit. 1500–1900 54 391 These monarchs occupy different places on the gender continuum—Henry VI..is effeminized in part by his masculine wife, while the self-indulgent Richard II is effeminized through an identification with his spouse.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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