Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Having some characteristic of a woman, as delicacy, luxuriousness, etc.; soft or delicate to an unmanly degree; womanish; weak. 2. (a.) Womanlike; womanly; tender; -- in a good sense. 3. (v. t.) To make womanish; to make soft and delicate; to weaken. 4. (v. i.) To grow womanish or weak.

Multi-Version Concordance Effeminate (1 Occurrence) 1 Corinthians 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, (KJV ASV WBS YLT NAS)