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> > > > Subject matter aside, he really does sound
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> > > > an effete negro in this one.
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> > > I believe you are using the word "effete"
> > > incorrectly. I believe you think you know
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https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/effete
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> > effete -excessively self-indulgent, affected,
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> > decadent
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> > Pinpoint perfect in defining Meade's bloated
> > self-important style of recitation.
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> First of all, go out and buy a real unabridged
> dictionary.
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> Effete comes from the French effete, meaning,
> literally, worn out because of childbirth. It is
> often confused in English to mean "effeminate."
> It does not mean effeminate to the educated.
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> Under the real definition, a woman can be effete,
> a government program could be effete, a wardrobe
> could be effete, a third world nation could be
> effete, but not a man.
You should educate the dictionaries about their incorrect usage of 'effete'
The more I study the dictionary definition of "effete" the more it seems to fit Maede's entire being.
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/effete
"If you describe someone as effete, you are criticizing them for being weak and powerless.
[formal, disapproval]
...the charming but effete Russian gentry of the 1840s."
https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/effete
"The first definition of effete in the dictionary is weak, ineffectual, or decadent as a result of overrefinement. Other definition of effete is exhausted of vitality or strength; worn out; spent. Effete is also no longer capable of reproduction."
https://www.etymonline.com/word/effete
effete (adj.)
1620s, "functionless as a result of age or exhaustion," from Latin effetus (usually in fem. effeta) "exhausted, unproductive, worn out (with bearing offspring), past bearing," literally "that has given birth," from a lost verb, *efferi, from assimilated form of ex "out" (see ex-) + fetus "childbearing, offspring" (see fetus). Figurative use is earliest in English; literal use is rare. Sense of "intellectually or morally exhausted" (1790) led to that of "decadent, effeminate" (by 1850s).