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

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

The iconoclastic scorn of youth's idealism for the effeteness of the 'old hunkers', as Whitman called them, has rarely rung out more sharply than in the closing stanzas of Claudel's great Palm Sunday ode.

From Recent Developments in European Thought by Various