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Date: 1600-1700
Language: Latin
Origin: effetus, from fetus 'producing young'

effete

 adjective
     
ef‧fete formal
1 weak and powerless in a way that you dislike:
effete intellectuals
2 an effete man looks or behaves like a woman
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