Feebleness

Feebleness of this type discourages the base, emboldens the thugs in the opposition, and convinces the average voter that the Democrats are too feeble and cowardly to be relied on in a crisis.

Matthew Yglesias » Concrete Pressure 2010

Behold what Sophisms one can find to justify any Attempt, tho 'never so mad or desperate; and even affront, if not quite reverse the Laws of Nature: That if the Feebleness of our Hands did not moderate the Fury of our Heads, Women sometimes would exceed the fiercest Savages, especially when affronted in their Amours; which brings into my Mind a Verse or two on such an Occasion.

The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia 2008

Behold what Sophisms one can find to justify any Attempt, tho 'never so mad or desperate; and even affront, if not quite reverse the Laws of Nature: That if the Feebleness of our Hands did not moderate the Fury of our Heads, Women sometimes would exceed the fiercest Savages, especially when affronted in their Amours; which brings into my Mind a Verse or two on such an Occasion.

The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia 2008

Gods; I look'd down upon all moral Vertues, as Steps by which I had ascended to this Happiness of Mind; I almost bless'd those Misfortunes that had thus brought me to know the Feebleness and Instability of all earthly Persuits and Acquests, and chiefly that I had truly learnt to know and contemn myself, and, for the Love of the Gods, long'd to be freed from this mortal Being.

Exilius 2008

Feebleness is there for breadth; if his pencil wants rounding and pointing;

International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 7, August 12, 1850 Various

Feebleness of age and the increase in number of inmates had made the duties too arduous for one of his strength.

A Manual of North Carolina Issued by the North Carolina Historical Commission for the Use of Members of the General Assembly Session 1913 Robert Digges Wimberly 1913

Feebleness and dismay vanished with the first plunge into the still sleepy sea, and alertness and vigour returned, as the incense of the first morning's sacrifice went straight as a column to the sky.

Confessions of a Beachcomber 1887

Feebleness of will brings about weakness of head, and the abyss in spite of its horror, comes to fascinate us, as though it were a place of refuge.

Amiel's Journal Henri Fr��d��ric Amiel 1885

They oppose the tendencies of Feebleness, Relaxation, and Derangement, and modify their proclivities to Disease.

The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877

X. -- Answers to the Objections of a wounded Conscience drawn from the Feebleness of his Faith

Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers. 1608-1661 1863