Definition of Effeteness

1. Noun. The property of being effete. ¹

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Definition of Effeteness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Effeteness

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effervescent salts
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effeteness (current term)
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Literary usage of Effeteness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reminiscences of a Regicide by Antoine François Sergent-Marceau (1889)
"2nd., Sergent returns from the Country—Saves two men— Longwy taken—Priests massacred—effeteness of the Police—- Potion in consternation—Lally ..."

2. The Canadian Alpine Journal: Journal Alpin Canadien by Alpine Club of Canada (1907)
"But the peril is, that men become satiated with wheat, and there follows that effeteness which is worse than the effeteness of an unbalanced culture. ..."

3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, George Walter Prothero, Sir Adolphus William Ward (1907)
"... the cynical irony of Heine, are phenomena which emphasised the effeteness of Romanticism. Decay, too, is to be traced in the morbid, although powerful, ..."

4. The Contemporary Review (1868)
"The hopeless effeteness of the rois fainéants is almost, without a parallel even in Oriental dynasties. They appear, indeed, to have been physically ..."

5. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"Freytag's polemic is not only the dignity of labor under present conditions, but the absolute effeteness of the old order of things that despised it. ..."

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