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Definition of Imbecilities
1. imbecility [n] - See also: imbecility
Lexicographical Neighbors of Imbecilities
Literary usage of Imbecilities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"M. The Idiocies and imbecilities (Dependent upon Faulty Development of the Brain)
... The idiocies and imbecilities are nearly always organic diseases, ..."
2. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll by Robert Green Ingersoll (1902)
"VOLUMES might be written on the follies and imbecilities of " great" men. Only a
few years ago the really great men were persecuted, imprisoned or burned. ..."
3. A Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire (1843)
"The good Calmet, or Dora Calmet (for the Benedictines like us to give them their
Dom), that simple compiler of so many reveries and imbecilities ; that man ..."
4. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll by Robert Green Ingersoll (1901)
"VOLUMES might be written on the follies and imbecilities of " great" men. Only a
few years ago the really great men were persecuted, imprisoned or burned. ..."
5. Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary by Joseph Story (1833)
"... from the imbecilities, as well as the inequalities of the confederation.1 Without
such a power, it would not be possible to provide for the support of ..."
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