feebleness

[ UK /fˈiːbə‍lnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)
  2. the quality of lacking intensity or substance
    a shrill yet sweet tenuity of voice
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How To Use feebleness In A Sentence

  • Amongst the elites, there is a feebleness about standing up for a particular way of life.
  • And if it were ever consolatory to know this, or the like of this, it was consolatory then, when the impotence of his will, the instability of his hopes, the feebleness of wealth, had been so direfully impressed upon him. Dombey and Son
  • And, as always, our spirits rose after initial feebleness.
  • What puzzles me is the feebleness of the argument.
  • Whatever faults are in the work of the master himself, he is never, up to the last, guilty of any feebleness or insipidity, such, for instance, as in the painting of this unsolid figure. Luca Signorelli
  • He was, just the same, struck by some kind of lifelessness, uncertainty, a little feebleness that he had never observed before in his friend. Maigret Afraid
  • The feebleness of the party's campaign was not merely organisational.
  • I detected a certain feebleness of insight in these pieces.
  • [117]; and that is for that we should know our own feebleness and our mischiefs that we are fallen in by sin, to meeken us and make us to dread God and cry for help and grace. Revelations of Divine Love
  • It is extremely difficult to distinguish in observation between vagueness of the illusion due to feebleness in the after-image depending on faint illumination, dark-colored discs or lack of the desirable difference in luminosity between the sectors (cf.p. 171) and the indefiniteness which is due to broad transition-bands existing between the (relatively) pure-color bands. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.
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