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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
effeminize .
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It is odd to notice that which ever way the woman is placed, she is supposed to exert this degrading influence; if the teacher, she effeminizes her pupils; if the pupil, she effeminizes her teachers.
The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1897
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