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== Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words <ref name="term_77517" /> == | == Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words <ref name="term_77517" /> == | ||
<div> '''1: | <div> '''1: '''''Μαλακός''''' ''' (Strong'S #3120 — Adjective — malakos — mal-ak-os' ) </div> <p> "soft, soft to the touch" (Lat., mollis, Eng., "mollify," "emollient," etc.), is used (a) of raiment, Matthew 11:8 (twice); Luke 7:25; (b) metaphorically, in a bad sense, 1—Corinthians 6:9 , "effeminate," not simply of a male who practices forms of lewdness, but persons in general, who are guilty of addiction to sins of the flesh, voluptuous. </p> | ||
== King James Dictionary <ref name="term_59893" /> == | == King James Dictionary <ref name="term_59893" /> == | ||
<p> | <p> EFFEM'INATE, a. L. effoeminatus, from effoeminor, to grow or make womanish, from foemina, a woman. See Woman. </p> 1. Having the qualities of the female sex soft or delicate to an unmanly degree tender womanish voluptuous. <p> The king, by his voluptuous life and mean marriage, became effeminate, and less sensible of honor. </p> 2. Womanish weak resembling the practice or qualities of the sex as an effeminate peace an effeminate life. 3. Womanlike, tender, in a sense not reproachful. <p> EFFEM'INATE, To make womanish to unman to weaken as to effeminate children. </p> <p> EFFEM'INATE, To grow womanish or weak to melt into weakness. </p> <p> In a slothful peace courage will effeminate. </p> | ||
== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_114904" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_114904" /> == | ||
