Definitions
deprived of vigor and the ability to be effective
Word origin
From Latin effētus (“exhausted”, literally “that has given birth”), 1620s.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“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.”
“A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete core of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals (Spiro Agnew, October 1969)”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Lacking vigor”6 letters
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