effeminature
Dictionary entries
- Entry →effemino, effeminare, effeminavi, effeminatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
weaken, enervate, make effeminate, emasculate, unman;
voc. sg. fut. act. part.
Examples
Liber III
Aulus Gellius
"...vigor animi corporisque elanguescit et, quod Sallustius ait, "effeminatur"." Tum Favorinus legi denuo verba eadem Sallustii iubet atque..."Liber X
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...molliter vivit'; hoc dicunt, 'mollis est'. Paulatim enim effeminatur animus atque in similitudinem otii sui et pigritiae..."