effeminacy Copy link Outline 1. mollĭtia and mollĭties, ēi (unmanly softness or weakness)2. effēmĭnātus animi languor, Cic. Att. 16, 27. Also the neut. of effeminatus may be used in certain connexions3. effēmĭnātio (late) animi, Hieron. Phr. • effeminacy: 1. mollĭtia and mollĭties, ēi (unmanly softness or weakness): to sink into e., ad mollitiem labi, Cic.: a nation enervated by e. and luxury, gens effeminata mollitie luxuriaque, Just.: indulging in e. more than any woman, [otio ac] mollitie ultra feminam fluens, Vell. 2. effēmĭnātus animi languor, Cic. Att. 16, 27. Also the neut. of effeminatus may be used in certain connexions: we must see to it, that there be no softness, e., or weakness in what we do, videndum ne quid molle, e., fractum faciamus, Cic. Tusc. 4, 30, 64. 3. effēmĭnātio (late) animi, Hieron. Phr.: with e., effeminatē, Cic. Join: molliter et effeminate, Sen.: e. of life, delicata vita, Cic.: v. effeminate.
EFFEMINACY Copy link • EFFEMINACYmores effeminati: effeminatus animi languor (Quint., Cic., in Cic., Epp.): vita effeminata, mollis, delicata: enervata: mollitia or mollities; or by circumlocution with effeminare [☞ effeminatio very late].