effeteness
Example Sentences
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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
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 W. R. Washington Sullivan
I cannot understand how, amid the effeteness of this city, a talent can rise which is so fresh and individual.
From The Argonauts by Jeremiah Curtin
The Country Life Movement is not the despairing gasp of expiring effeteness; it is an exclamation of robust joy in the possession of a life healthily adapted to our needs.
From The American Country Girl by Martha Foote Crow
