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effete [if-feet] Adjective weak, powerless, and decadent [Latin effetus exhausted by bearing young]
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effete adjective weak, cowardly, feeble, ineffectual, decrepit, spineless, enfeebled, weak-kneed (informal) enervated, overrefined, chicken-hearted, wimpish or wimpy (informal) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In the meantime you can relieve your feelings by cursing the one-man power and the effete monarchies of Europe. Uncouth, perhaps, and brutal, too, if judged too harshly by the standards of effete twentieth- century civilization, but withal noble, dignified, chivalrous, and loveable. The knoll was there, but the Hunnish brambles had overrun and all but obliterated its effete grasses; and the patrician garden-violet had capitulated to his plebeian brother--perhaps had merely reverted to his original type. |
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