enervation

• It was as well, Helva knew, for the cast could not have accepted, in their present enervation, the devastating truth of their captivity. —  The Ship Who Sang
• In no sense is this a watering-down or enervation, only a different way of getting at things. —  FSFMagazine,May2007
• Perfect habits of health on the part of an individual will not protect him against enervation or infection resulting from inefficient enforcement of sanitary codes by city, county, state, and national authorities Illustration: AT JUNIOR SEA BREEZE, TEACHING MOTHERS THE HEALTH ROUTINE FOR BABIES The "municipalization" or "public subsidy" of health habits is indispensable to protecting industrial efficiency. —  Civics and Health
• Though it is she who now has ordered the unwelcome light to be admitted, he overlooks this in his enervation, and says how, before ever they met, he had observed that her windows were always blind till noon. —  Browning's Heroines
• Goldsmith, in his remarks upon the Present State of Polite Learning (1759), explains the decay of literature (literature is always decaying) by the general enervation which accompanies learning and the want of originality caused by the growth of criticism. —  English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century

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