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feebless Obs. exc. arch.
Forms: 3–4 feblesce, 3–5 feblesse, 4 fie-, fyeblesse, 6 feeblesse, 9 feebless.
[a. OF. feblesce, foiblece, mod.F. faiblesse, f. feble, foible feeble a.]
Feebleness, infirmity; infirm health.
1297R. Glouc. (1724) 442 Þe kyng hyre fader was old man, & drou to feblesse. c1315Shoreham 18 Ine tokne of febleste [read -esce] of hiis goste. 1340Ayenb. 33 Zuo þet he ualþ ine fyeblesse and ine zuiche ziknesse. c1374Chaucer Boeth. iv. ii. 112 Yif so be þat goode be stedfast þan sheweþ þe fieblesse of yuel al openly. 1485Caxton Chas. Gt. 81 For feblesse he fyl to the erthe. 1596Spenser F.Q. iv. viii. 37 Great feeblesse..did oft assay Faire Amoret that scarcely she could ride. 1866J. B. Rose tr. Ovid's Fasti vi. 932 The hours unreined old age and feebless bring. |