How To Use Feebleness In A Sentence
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Amongst the elites, there is a feebleness about standing up for a particular way of life.
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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
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And, as always, our spirits rose after initial feebleness.
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What puzzles me is the feebleness of the argument.
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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
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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
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The feebleness of the party's campaign was not merely organisational.
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I detected a certain feebleness of insight in these pieces.
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[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
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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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I never dreamt that I, always so well, always so full of life, could know such feebleness as this, feebleness which is all of the body, Doris, leaving the mind free to dream and long.
Initials Only
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Alix suggests that "Kirsty Wark ... asked some fairly daft and muddled questions" in that Newsnight interview, whereas I reckoned she was more or less avoiding involuntary micturition in her big leather chair with beside-herself laughter at his utterly pathetic know-nothing feebleness.
Alix Mortimer: Suggesting Osborne Not Up To Job
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His feebleness was a cause of great anxiety and concern to those around him; but the degree of interest felt in the little sufferer's fate was very much less than it would have been if he had been the oldest son.
Charles I Makers of History
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Reason: the great Absurdity to our feebleness is the Divine, 841-m.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
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To all the feebleness of infancy His majestic powers bow themselves, letting but little play forth on the tender forms they ensoul.
Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries
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His answer spilled timid and trembling from his frightened lips, a trickle of stuttering feebleness.
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Whether it be that the air of Auchtertool suits me better than that of Aberdour, or that having my kind little cousins within cry is a wholesome diversion, or that it required a continuance of country air to act upon my feebleness, I am not competent to say, nor is it of the slightest earthly consequence what the cause is, so that the effect has been as I tell you.
Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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Exploiting the feebleness of this excuse, Mr Gonzalez has began to regain the ground lost after the televised debate.
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A bishop holds office for life or during good behavior, but he may be assigned quadrennially to different districts, and may be retired, when feebleness or general disability warrants it, on $1,000 a year.
Religious Bodies: 1906
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The more important point, however, is that (to me at least) one of the measures of national power and greatness is the ability to suffer the insecurities and feebleness of weaker powers with a measure of grace.
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Replying as curtly as feebleness permitted, Burnell explained how he had been stung by a scorpion.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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Emerson himself said, "I think that my very feebleness is the cause of my long life, for when the hard blow of disease struck my vigorous brother Charles he had not power to receive it, and fell, while I feebly bowed like the willow to the gust, and survived.
The Enduring Greatness of Newer Nations
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The feebleness of their excuse for abandoning their soi disant principles – a meaningless executive order – is all the proof one needs.
Obama Nation
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The will of the spirit must become something which it is not, as yet, from the very start, — truly free; and it is free only when that feebleness, which is primarily merely a sort of clumsiness, is overcome, — when the spirit is not only in general willing to do God’s will, but also shows in each particular case the same unwavering willingness.
Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics.
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It was attended by a large concourse of Friends and others, and a solid meeting was held on the occasion; after which, his remains were interrd in Friends burial-ground at this place (Jericho, Queens County, New York.) I have thought (even presented so incompletely, with such fearful hiatuses, and in my own feebleness and waning life) one might well memorize this life of Elias Hicks.
Notes (Such as They Are) Founded on Elias Hicks. November Boughs
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And yet I remember that at that early age -- mayhap under fourteen -- notwithstanding, and through all its incidental attractiveness, he hazarded the opinion to me (and the expression riveted my surprise), that there was feebleness in the structure of the work.
Stories of Authors, British and American
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And till that Spirit is given us, there is nothing but enmity and disaffection towards God; there is nothing but feebleness and impotence, as to any thing that is good; there is nothing but distemperature and diseasedness in man, which have pierced him to the very heart.
The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.
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But it was as yet uncertain whether the proposal would obtain more than a few stray votes in the House: and when, after a debate in which the speaker's on the contrary side were conspicuous by their feebleness, the votes recorded in favour of the motion amounted to 73 -- made up by pairs and tellers to above 80 -- the surprise was general, and the encouragement great: the greater, too, because one of those who voted for the motion was Mr Bright, a fact which could only be attributed to the impression made on him by the debate, as he had previously made no secret of his nonconcurrence in the proposal.
The autobiography of John Stuart Mill
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Governors of the Mughal empire also took advantage of growing feebleness - the nawabs of Bengal, Oudh and Hyderabad were soon to establish quasi-independent states which owed only nominal allegiance to Delhi.
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This may be induced by many and various predisposing causes, such as feebleness of constitution of the variety planted, rendering them an easy prey to the disease; by planting on low, moist land, or on land highly enriched by nitrogenous manures, causing a morbid growth which invites the disease; also by insects or their larvæ puncturing or eating off the leaves or vines.
The $100 Prize Essay on the Cultivation of the Potato. Prize offered by W. T. Wylie and awarded to D. H. Compton. How to Cook the Potato, Furnished by Prof. Blot.
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The distinct otherness in glass transition and devitrification temperature of five polyalcohols reflected the feebleness and power in the aspects of glass transition ability.
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No color feebleness, no color blindness. No seriously illness and deformity.
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a small deckhouse, holding on by ropes, and in feebleness welcoming the stranger with hats in hand.
The Diadem Rescuing the Crew of the C. W. Connor
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Had the third estate been centred entirely in the communes at strife with their lords, had the fate of burgherdom in France depended on the communal liberties won in that strife, we should see, at the end of the thirteenth century, that element of French society in a state of feebleness and decay.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2
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The improbability and feebleness of the interaction are offset by the sheer number of particles. After all, dark matter is thought to dominate the galaxy.
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Or he may detect the feebleness of momentum during a rally, indicating weakness.
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The weak tears of age rolled down his cheeks, and all the feebleness of his eighty-seven years showed in his grief-stricken countenance.
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The improbability and feebleness of the interaction are offset by the sheer number of particles. After all, dark matter is thought to dominate the galaxy.
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That, to me, would be tantamount to moral feebleness - and it would, in any case, fail in its aim.
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Mystery and gloom, dark blue and starshine, doubt and feebleness alternate with the clear and shining, opal skies and sunglow, heroic ardor and the exultation of power.
AE in the Irish Theosophist
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Lack of confidence in one's own powers is the source of every kind of feebleness and of all unsuccess.
Poise: How to Attain It
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Diseases of the stomach: feebleness of the stomach, indigestion, flatulency, irritation, and sometimes inflammation.
Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics
