Having the qualities of the female sex; soft or delicate to an unmanly degree; tender; womanish; —voluptuous. The king, by his voluptuous life and mean marriage, became effeminate, and less sensible of honor.

Womanish; weak; resembling the practice or qualities of the sex; as an effeminate peace; an effeminate life.

Womanlike, tender, in a sense not reproachful.

To make womanish; to unman; to weaken; as to effeminate children.

To grow womanish or weak; to melt into weakness. In a slothful peace courage will effeminate.