Meaning of effœminate | Babel Free

Definitions

Obsolete spelling of effeminate.

alt-of, obsolete

Examples

“Their effœminate ſoftnes and nicenes in regard to their bodies, Seneca hath well both obſerued and cenſured:[…]Now if their men were herein thus effœminate, wee may well conceiue their women exceeded more:[…]”

“Bring well known hands, keep forraine beaſts from you, / If Pompeys far-fam’d name deſerve to be / The crime of Cæſar, feares not Ptolomey / The ruine of that name: or when the sky / Thunders, dar’ſt thou, effœminate Ptolomey, / Inſert thy prophane hands? to terrify / Thee, King, a Romans name enough ſhould be, / Without that worth that did the world controll:[…]When Cnejus heard theſe words, his inward woe / In paſſionate teares, and ſighs he could not ſhow; / But thus inflam’d with pious rage gan ſpeake, / Lanch forth the fleet, ſailers, with ſpeed, and breake / Through the croſſe winds a paſſage with the oare, / Brave Captaines follow me, never before / Knew civill war more worthy ends then theſe, / T’interre unbury’d Manes, and appeaſe / Pompey with ſlaughter of th’effœminate boy.”

“In your language be plaine, honeſt, naturall, comely, cleane, ſhort, and ſentencious: eſchew both the extremities, aſwell in not uſing any ruſtical corrupt leide, as booke-language, and penne and inke-horne tearmes: and leaſt of al mignarde and effœminate tearmes.”

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