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effeminate (2 rare use, found also in Nashe)
1. womanish, unmanly, feeble, self-indulgent AYL. III. ii. 436, R2 V. iii. 10, 1H6 I. i. 35, V. iv. 107, Troil. III. iii. 219, Rom. III. i. 120.
2. tender, gentle R3 III. vii. 210.
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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