| effete Jun 30th 2013, 01:30, by Erik Kennedy | | | | Line 19: | Line 19: | | | #*: Nature is not '''effœte''', as he saith, or so lavish, to bestow all her gifts upon an age, but hath reserved some for posterity, to shew her power, that she is still the same, and not old or consumed. | | #*: Nature is not '''effœte''', as he saith, or so lavish, to bestow all her gifts upon an age, but hath reserved some for posterity, to shew her power, that she is still the same, and not old or consumed. | | | # {{context|now|_|rare|lang=en}} Of people: lacking strength or vitality; [[feeble]], [[powerless]], [[impotent]]. | | # {{context|now|_|rare|lang=en}} Of people: lacking strength or vitality; [[feeble]], [[powerless]], [[impotent]]. | | − | # [[decadent|Decadent]], [[self-indulgent]]. | + | #* '''1929''', George Macaulay Trevelyan, ''History of England: From 1485 to the End of the Reign of Queen Anne, 1714'', p. 457: | | | + | #*: Amid the '''effete''' monarchies and princedoms of feudal Europe, morally and materially exhausted by the Thirty Years' War, the only hope of resistance to France lay in the little Republic of merchants, Holland. | | | + | # [[decadent|Decadent]], [[weak]] through [[self-indulgence]]. | | | + | # [[effeminate|Effeminate]]. | | | + | #* '''1951''', Herman Wouk, ''The Caine Mutiny'', p. 27: | | | + | #*: a good-humored, '''effete''' boy brought up by maiden aunts. | | | | | | | | ====Translations==== | | ====Translations==== |  |
