enervationn.
/ɛnəˈveɪʃən/ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > structural parts > sinew, tendon, or ligament > types of sinew, tendon, or ligament > [noun] > of abdomen
enervation1578
linea alba1578
1578 J. Banister Hist. Man iv. f. 46v A broad Membraneous eneruation.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Fibres of the Recti of the Abdomen..are intersected by several Nervous Places, called by the Antients Enervations; tho' they be real Tendons.
2. The action of enervating; the state of being enervated: see enervate v.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] > weakening or decline in health
failinga1382
sickeninga1382
wasting1398
downhielda1400
dissolutionc1400
debilitationa1492
defailing1502
effeeblishing1540
faintingc1540
effeeblishment1545
enervationa1575
feeblishing1574
declining1588
decay1609
flagging1611
labefaction1620
feebling1624
sinking1625
deading1645
dejection1652
fail1654
emperiment1674
decline1770
sapping1825
breakdown1858
attenuation1868
the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > [noun] > making (immaterial things) weak
enervationa1575
watering1604
dilution1646
weakening1651
enervatinga1674
dissolution1684
emaciating1717
enfeeblement1805
dilutement1807
watering1840
attenuation1868
the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily weakness > weakening > [noun] > condition of being weakened
enervationa1575
enfeeblement1667
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > weakness of character or will
unmighteOE
frailnessa1300
infirmityc1384
debility1474
brittleness1493
brucklenessc1500
weak side1668
weakness1748
washiness1763
feebleness1809–10
enervation1849
weak-mindedness1854
feet of clay1859
will-lessness1865
bonelessness1869
molluscousness1870
limpness1873
backbonelessness1882
invertebracy1882
weak-kneedness1882
invertebrateness1884
spinelessness1920
gutlessness1936
a1575 N. Harpsfield Treat. Divorce Henry VIII (1878) (modernized text) 219 The enervation and evasion of her adversaries intention.
1597 F. Bacon Of Coulers Good & Euill (Arb.) i. 140 This couler of melioritie and preheminence is oft a signe of enervation and weakenesse.
1636 A. Cade Serm. Necess. for these Times App. 36 An enervation or dissolution of good laws.
1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 207 in Justice Vindicated To the final destruction and enervation of the Estates of the same Incumbents.
a1718 W. Penn Tracts in Wks. (1726) I. 485 An Enervation of the Romanist's Faith.
1849 G. Grote Hist. Greece VI. ii. xlvii. 25 A love for knowledge without enervation of character.
1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. xiv. 238 The luscious softness of the Italian airs overcame me with a delicious enervation.
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