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单词 feebleness
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feeblenessn.

Brit. /ˈfiːblnəs/, U.S. /ˈfib(ə)lnəs/
Etymology: formed as feeble v. + -ness suffix.
a. The state or quality of being feeble (in the various senses of the adjective); an instance of this.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] > weakness
faintise1297
weaknessa1300
faintc1320
feebleness1340
languishingc1384
lamea1400
unferea1400
unferenessa1400
unwielda1400
impotence1406
imbecility?a1425
languisha1425
languoringa1438
unwieldness1437
faintnessa1440
impotency1440
infirmityc1440
debility1484
unlustiness1486
resolution1547
unwieldiness1575
languishment1576
infirmness1596
weakness1603
prostrationa1626
exolution1634
languidness1634
prosternation1650
faintingnessa1661
debilitude1669
flaccidity1676
atony1693
puniness1727
faintishness1733
adynamia1743
asthenia1802
adynamy1817
weakliness1826
tonelessness1873
atonicity1900
the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mental deficiency > [noun]
feebleness1340
feeble-mindedness1619
fatuity1621
amentia1793
unnaturality1823
oligophrenia1899
moronism1913
the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > [noun] > weakness of immaterial things
weaknessa1300
feebleness1340
waterishnessa1603
faintnessa1716
flaccidity1778
saplessness1851
flabbiness1883
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [noun]
feebleness1533
washiness1631
wateriness1660
wheyishness1803
inexpressiveness1815
ineffectiveness1865
nullity1883
wishy-washiness1891
the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily weakness > [noun]
wokenessc1000
unstrengthc1175
frailnessa1300
weaknessa1300
brotelhede1340
frailtyc1384
tendernessa1387
slackness1398
unmain?a1400
unmight?a1400
feebility1413
fragility1474
infirmity1590
strengthlessness1666
feebleness1684
akrasia1806
weediness1860
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
1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 1514 Þe mare in malys and febelnes Þe kynd of ayther trobled es.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 28679 Þis man..For-sakes penance neuer þe lese, And legges febulnes of flexse.
1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 67v Wrath cometh of feblenesse of courage.
1517 R. Torkington Oldest Diarie Englysshe Trav. (1884) 39 Our Savior..for very febylnesse fell..to the grounde.
1533 T. More Debellacyon Salem & Bizance Pref. f. viiv The feblenesse of his answere shall appere.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 95 King Richarde walking vnwisely aboute the Castell, to espie the feblenesse thereof.
1684 Bp. G. Burnet tr. T. More Utopia 79 Women..deal in Wool and Flax, which sute better with their feebleness.
1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont 135 The feebleness of the weapons.
1809–10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1865) 190 It is feebleness only which cannot be generous without injustice.
1860 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem (1861) III. cxxv. 80. Committing himself to the fashionable feeblenesses.
1884 Liverpool Mercury 22 Oct. 5/4 His grand defect lay in feebleness of will.
b. concrete (nonce-use).
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1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss III. vi. viii. 120 Ready to strike that daring feebleness from the stool.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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