debile

• A dramatic poet with an appetite was a full dose for Edward Henry; but a dramatic poet who lay on his back and moaned for naught but soda-water and dry land amounted to more than Edward Henry could conveniently swallow He directed Mr. Sachs's attention to the anguished and debile organism which had once been Carlo Trent, and Mr. Sachs was so sympathetic that Carlo Trent began to adore him, and Edward Henry to be somewhat disturbed in his previous estimate of Mr. Sachs's common sense. —  The Regent
• The family magazine of the literary order has been debile, so radical critics charge, since its journalistic offspring began to sweep America. —  Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism
• And with such an august assistance of powers and principalities looking on at the last conflict of good and evil, it was scarce possible to spare a thought to those old, infirm, debile, ab agendo devils whose holy place they were now violating There might have been three hundred to four hundred present. —  Lay Morals
• Chopin is here a debile, prematurely exhausted young man. —  Chopin : the Man and His Music
• “Et nos tela, Pater, ferrumque haud debile dextrâ —  Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life.

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