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Definition of Feebleness

1. Noun. The state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age).

2. Noun. The quality of lacking intensity or substance. "A shrill yet sweet tenuity of voice"

Definition of Feebleness

1. n. The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity.

Definition of Feebleness

1. Noun. The quality or state of being feeble; debility; infirmity. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Feebleness

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Feebleness

fee simples subject to condition subsequent fee simples subject to executory interest fee simples subject to executory limitation fee splitting fee tail feeb feebate feebates feeble feeble-minded

feeble-mindedness feebled feebleminded feeblemindedly feeblemindedness feebleness (current term) feeblenesses feebler feebles feeblest

feebling feeblish feebly feebs feechur feechurs feed feed-bag feed-drive feed-forward activation

Literary usage of Feebleness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1901)
"feebleness of Mind, Pauperism, and Crime. By Miss MARY DENDY. The special point to be proved is this: we are to-day suffering from an evil which will, ..."

2. A History of American Christianity by Leonard Woolsey Bacon (1897)
"It is not easy for us, in view either of the antecedent or of the subsequent history, to realize the extreme feebleness of American Catholicism at the birth ..."

3. The Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity: With References to the Scotch and by John Hutton Balfour Browne (1880)
"Intellectual feebleness: Legal Relations of.—It follows almost necessarily from what has been already said that mere intellectual feebleness will not be ..."

4. Samuel F.B. Morse: His Letters and Journals by Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Edward Lind Morse (1914)
"feebleness of Pope. — Morse and companions visit Naples, Capri, and Amalfi. — Charms of Amalfi. — Terrible accident. — Flippancy at funerals. ..."

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