[f. next + -ATION.] a. The action of making feminine. b. The giving of a feminine inflexion to a word.
1844. Blackw. Mag., LV., April, 510. There is a sweetness, a softness, and feminization of tone, in the slower passages, that it struck me at once could only proceed from the milder sex.
1886. H. James, Bostonians, III. II. xxxiv. 52. ‘To save it [the sex] from what?’ she asked. ‘From the most damnable feminisation!’
1891. Miss Dowie, Girl in Karp., 115. Their [Poles’] careless and light-hearted feminisation of a verb.
