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

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)

I cannot understand how, amid the effeteness of this city, a talent can rise which is so fresh and individual.

From The Argonauts by Curtin, Jeremiah

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 Crow, Martha Foote