effeteness

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Entrance to such a club as this requires a certain pallidness, an achromasia, a terrific effeteness peculiar to the very high-born undead.

From Slate • Aug. 5, 2014

There is a shaven-headed intensity about this 2010 side that rejects the effeteness of more naturally gifted Dutch teams.

From The Guardian • Jul. 7, 2010

It was Mr. Howells,—ever as generous in discovering new native talent as he is unflinching in reproof of the effeteness of European taste,—who first drew attention to the originality and beauty of Mr. Cawein's poetry.

From Kentucky Poems by Cawein, Madison J.

But in this last extract we are still three degrees away from what can be done in the line of gentility and delicate effeteness of style.

From Emerson and Other Essays by Chapman, John Jay

Never was the effeteness of ancient systems, the impotence of the old idealism, more conspicuous.

From Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles by Sullivan, W. R. Washington