feebleness

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One reason for the feebleness is that there has not been this concentration of spiritual energy; we have not brooded enough on the tragedy of Calvary or on the meaning of Redemption. gbm3: "" Trees are living things, not useless unborn [edited] "..."

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  1. The quality or condition of being feeble, in any sense of that word; weakness. Our Savior Crist, beryng hys Crost, for very febylnesse fell ther to the grounde vnder nethe Crosse. Torkington, Diarie of Eng. Travell. p. 39. He [Hamlet] is the victim not so much of feebleness of will as of an intellectual indifference that hinders the will from working long in any one direction. Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 215.

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  • One reason for the feebleness is that there has not been this concentration of spiritual energy; we have not brooded enough on the tragedy of Calvary or on the meaning of Redemption. gbm3: "" Trees are living things, not useless unborn [edited] "..." —  ProLifeBlogs
  • Reason: the great Absurdity to our feebleness is the Divine, 841-m. —  Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
  • He detested the man, but his feebleness was seized by the latter question, and he fancied he might, on the road to London, convey to Sedgett's mind that it would be well to split that thousand, as he had previously devised Jump in," he said When Sedgett was seated, Algernon would have been glad to walk the distance to London to escape from the unwholesome proximity. —  Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
  • 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
  • Wermund, thinking that his feebleness was at fault, that he took the blows so patiently, dragged himself little by little, in his longing for death, forward to the western edge of the bridge, meaning to fling himself down and perish, should all be over with his son Fortune shielded the old father, for Uffe told the prince to engage with him more briskly, and to do some deed of prowess worthy of his famous race; lest the lowborn squire should seem braver than the prince. —  The Danish History, Books I-IX
 

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  1. from Middle English febelnes, febulnesse, from feble, febul, feeble, + -ness.
 

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