Read full poem →the hishest applause, have helped me to another play, the Martial Maid, in which Beaumont
had auiare, and Jonson*s manner of characterising is very visible; an effeminate youth and a
masculine young lady are both reformed by love, like Jonson's Every Man in his Humour,
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Common Phrases
. effeminatemen effeminateman effeminatemale effeminatebehavior effeminateeffeminate somewhateffeminate almost
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Poetry examples for “effeminate”
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Read full poem →By thee, the greatest staine to mans estate
Falls on us, to be call'd effeminate;
Though you be much lov'd in the Princes hall,
Read full poem →The character which Ctesias depicted or invented, an effeminate
debauchee, sunk in luxury and sloth, who at the last was driven to take