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

The Church had created art, had cherished it for centuries; and now by the effeteness of her sons she was cast into a corner.

From The Cathedral by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)

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

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.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various