Feebleness
['fiblnɪs]
Definition
(noun.) the quality of lacking intensity or substance; 'a shrill yet sweet tenuity of voice'- Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Editor: Milton--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity.
Editor: Mervin
Examples
- His aunt worried him by her cares, and Sir Thomas knew not how to bring down his conversation or his voice to the level of irritation and feebleness. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- But for his pallor and feebleness, Bulstrode would have called the change in him entirely mental. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Its rapidity was unchecked, and its feebleness had increased. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- His cheeks, late vermilion glow, were changed to the ashy paleness of death; his Herculean strength to the feebleness of infancy. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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