Lectionary Calendar
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024
the Fourth Week after Easter
the Fourth Week after Easter
Attention!
For 10¢ a day you can enjoy StudyLight.org ads
free while helping to build churches and support pastors in Uganda.
Click here to learn more!
free while helping to build churches and support pastors in Uganda.
Click here to learn more!
Bible Dictionaries
Effeminate
King James Dictionary
or Resource Toolbox
Additional Links
EFFEM'INATE, a. L. effoeminatus, from effoeminor, to grow or make womanish, from foemina, a woman. See Woman.
1. 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.
2. Womanish weak resembling the practice or qualities of the sex as an effeminate peace an effeminate life.
3. Womanlike, tender, in a sense not reproachful.
EFFEM'INATE, To make womanish to unman to weaken as to effeminate children.
EFFEM'INATE, To grow womanish or weak to melt into weakness.
In a slothful peace courage will effeminate.
Copyright Statement
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Bibliography Information
Entry for 'Effeminate'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/e/effeminate.html.
Entry for 'Effeminate'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/e/effeminate.html.
