How to pronounce“effete”in English
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Definitions of “effete”
exhausted, spent, worn-out.
“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.”
Lacking strength or vitality; feeble, powerless, impotent.
“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.”
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