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feebleness|ˈfiːb(ə)lnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The state or quality of being feeble (in the various senses of the adj.); an instance of this.
a1300Cursor M. 28679 (Cott.) Þis man..for-sakes penance neuer þe lese, and legges febulnes of flexse. 1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 1514 Þe mare in malys and febelnes Þe kynd of ayther trobled es. 1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 134 Wrath cometh of feblenesse of courage. 1517R. Torkington Pilgr. (1884) 39 Our Savior..for very febylnesse fell..to the grounde. 1533More Debell. Salem Pref. 7 b, The feblenesse of his answere shal appere. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 107 King Richarde walking unwisely aboute the Castell, to espie the feblenesse thereof. 1683Burnet tr. More's Utopia (1684) 79 Women..deal in Wool and Flax, which sute better with their feebleness. 1794S. Williams Vermont 135 The feebleness of the weapons. 1809–10Coleridge Friend (1865) 190 It is feebleness only which cannot be generous without injustice. 1860Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. III. cxxv. 80. Committing himself to the fashionable feeblenesses. 1884L'pool Mercury 22 Oct. 5/4 His grand defect lay in feebleness of will.
b. concr. (nonce-use).
1860Geo. Eliot Mill on Fl. III. 120 Ready to strike that daring feebleness from the stool. |