Manifestation of traits in a boy or man that are more often associated with femininity

Hector reproaching Paris for not fighting in the Trojan War. Stipple engraving by G.S. and J.G. Facius after Angelica Kauffman, 1788.

Of sodomites, effeminates, hermaphrodites, and androgynes : sodomy in the age of Peter Damian / Glenn W. Olsen.

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Effeminacy

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Hector reproaching Paris for not fighting in the Trojan War. Stipple engraving by G.S. and J.G. Facius after Angelica Kauffman, 1788.

Of sodomites, effeminates, hermaphrodites, and androgynes : sodomy in the age of Peter Damian / Glenn W. Olsen.