The Only Use
effete
in
Politics and the English Language
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- A virile new Britain cannot continue indefinitely to be traduced in the eyes, or rather ears, of the world by the effete languors of Langham Place, brazenly masquerading as "standard English."†
Definitions:
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(1)
(effete) physically weak -- especially due to self-indulgence and moral decay
or:
said disapprovingly: more typical of a woman than a man - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)