Pedantic verse, Effeminately smooth, Racked through all little rules of art to soothe, The soft'ned age industriously compile, Main wit and cripple fancy all the while.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos
Their lovers and favorers, too, had a share in the young boy's honor or disgrace; and there goes a story that one of them was fined by the magistrates, because the lad whom he loved cried out Effeminately as he was fighting.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh
Many men dressed Effeminately with rouge, face patches, heavily scented clothing, muffs, and many ribbons of many colors.
"Our Legal Heritage, 4th Ed."
S. A. Reilly