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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
effeminate .
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Examples
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The report concluded that “because they are so earnestly seeking respectability, the organizations discourage the obvious effeminates.”
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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There's nothing good to watch on the tube and video games will turn your sons into rude, fat, violent effeminates who can't pay attention.
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These frail-limbed and mincing effeminates, flowing of locks,
Satyricon 2007
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She delightfully counters the modern stereotype of a city of tyrants, despots, cowards, eunuchs and effeminates, obsessed with hollow rituals and perpetuating a complex and incomprehensible bureaucracy.
Archive 2007-11-01 2007
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She delightfully counters the modern stereotype of a city of tyrants, despots, cowards, eunuchs and effeminates, obsessed with hollow rituals and perpetuating a complex and incomprehensible bureaucracy.
Review of Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire, by Judith Herrin 2007
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But the effeminates sought out only the women because they were only half men, half women; while those whose tastes were masculine and courageous wanted to become double men again.
Satyricon 2007
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As a result and regardless of intent, the message about priesthood conveyed by Mahony and like-minded bishops is that of an underpaid, sex-starved profession for effeminates, one that affords little opportunity to accomplish something valuable that couldn't just as well be accomplished in other, more gratifying ways.
Archive 2006-04-01 Mike L 2006
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As a result and regardless of intent, the message about priesthood conveyed by Mahony and like-minded bishops is that of an underpaid, sex-starved profession for effeminates, one that affords little opportunity to accomplish something valuable that couldn't just as well be accomplished in other, more gratifying ways.
Vocations: stop the insanity! Mike L 2006
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It is not to be thought that such beings engage themselves in human affairs in the sense of making men thieves, slave-dealers, burglars, temple-strippers, or debased effeminates practising and lending themselves to disgusting actions: that is not merely unlike gods; it is unlike mediocre men; it is, perhaps, beneath the level of any existing being where there is not the least personal advantage to be gained.
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
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These frail-limbed and mincing effeminates, flowing of locks,
The Satyricon — Volume 04 : Escape by Sea 20-66 Petronius Arbiter
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