If religion can be regarded as archaic science enriched with the belief in supernatural control, the myth can be regarded as effete religion which has been superseded by the growth of a loftier ethical purpose.
You break the astral molds there; and they may be quite worthless, quite effete and contemptible,--yet they are the things which alone keep the demon in man under restraint.
Nature made the mountains, you may say, for the special purpose of regeneratingeffete remnants of civilizations.
Another cause is found in affections of the liver and of the kidneys, when an increase of effete material has to be thrown off by the skin.
Sweating, in addition to regulating heat, is also an active agent in removingeffete material from the blood; therefore this secretion can not be checked without danger.
An effete administration, like that of the Sikhs, if thus roughly faced, as often as not let the matter rest.
It was now no longer an effete Sikh administration that breakers of the law had to deal with, but the strong right arm and warlike guile of the British officer, backed up by men who meant fighting.
It would be well for the world if, instead of cramming the brains of children with effete ideas and superstitions, the messages of these wise ones could be listened to and heeded.
They do not differ from persons of any age or sex in that country, if the world has been as justly, as it has always been firmly, persuaded that the people of Italy are effete in point of good faith.
He declared the British monarchy to be aneffete institution; the fetish of British freedom to have been "exbloded" long ago.
In this grand country of ours, where progress is the watchword, effete standards and dogging traditions must go by the board.
They are in their own land; the pains of war are their ordinary life; and they are supported by religion of a fanatical kind, influenced by the memory of years of suffering at the hands of an effete set of Bashi Bazouks.
It suited me altogether to accept this work (when once it was decided on to abandon the Soudan), which, to my idea, is preferable to letting it be under those wretched effete Egyptian Pashas.
Possibly they all combined to assist the physician's efforts, or rather aid his effete treatment.
But when a succession of blows is rained on this effete and bloated specimen, the shocks themselves create nervous channels and arouse anew the deteriorated nature.
Still, she could not be the contrite and effete parent who allowed a childĀOs helter-skelter whims and contempt of the parent to tread victoriously onto the agenda of the day.
He hadn't been effete on that real occasion but the dream that awakened him had a more masculine firmness of will that was not his own; and hers was a mellifluous, inveigling sound surreal and harmonious as waves brushing against the beach.
The wife of one of Wingdam's eminent pioneers, tired of the effete civilization of the East and its inhospitable climate, resolved to join her noble husband upon these golden shores.
The honest Connecticut farmer was quietly gathering from his threshing-floor the shoe-pegs, which, when intermixed with a fair proportion of oats, offered a pleasing substitute for fodder to the effete civilizations of Europe.
I intervened at this point and told the Borzoi he must moderate his language, upon which he began to bluster, shouting that he would not be put down by an arrogant hireling of effete Militarism.
I tell you the degenerate Romans of to-day are an effete and worn out race.
We should do scant justice to the blameless character, simple dignity, and moral purity of the primitive Christians, if we forgot the thoroughly effete and corrupt society by which they were surrounded.
Moors, like every effete people, are unable to grow a great quantity of hair on their faces.
You should make your paper octagonal in form, otherwise everybody will justly accuse you of imitating some effete and monarchical British journal.
He had sent copies of all his speeches to the effete and loathsome monarchs of Europe, with his frank neatly lithographed in one corner.
And as the formative and nutrient power is lodged exclusively in arterial blood, the very blood out of which the lungs were organized was dependent on lungs for oxygenation, without which it would have been effete and useless.
The Revision by the American Committee is the latest effort of scholarship to bring King James' Version up to date by eliminating effete terms and using words in their modern sense.
Christian apologists for usury, who have not utterly discarded all laws given by Moses as effete and no longer binding, have tried hard to show that this clause authorizes the general taking of interest.
The various emunctories or outlets of the body should, undoubtedly, be kept open and free, so that every portion of worn-out or effete matter may be effectually got rid of.
It keeps up in the system that centrifugal tendency of the circulation of which I have already spoken, and which is so favorable for the rejection of all effete and irritating matters.
The first had been to obtain the conversion of nations linked by the bond of one temporal rule, enjoying the highest degree of culture and knowledge then existing, but deeply tainted by the corruption of effete refinement.
They were not in danger of taking the moral corruption of an effete civilisation for the Christian faith.
Well, you've an effete aristocracy running yours, and we've a crowd of politicians.
They're brainy men languishing under an effete system which, when you take good holt of it, is England--just all England.
It must be confessed that Miss Spencer flirted outrageously, and enjoyed life as she never had done in the effete East.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "effete" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
