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

My boy, he said, should not be brought up with the same ideas of bourgeois effeteness and love of luxury which had disgraced the nation for centuries.

From The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

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

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.