nervelessness

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He believes it to be mere nervelessness, indolence.

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  1. A nerveless state; lack of vigor; weakness; imbecility. A pusillanimity and nervelessness utterly unparalleled. New York Tribune, April 21, 1862. The “North China Herald” says the quality of nervelessness distinguishes the Chinaman from the European. Sci. Amer., N. S., LIX. 198.

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  • He believes it to be mere nervelessness, indolence. —  The Cathedral
  • A strange languor beset her; scarcely melancholy, for she conceived the cheerfulness of life and added to it in company; but a nervelessness, as though she had been left by the stream on the banks, and saw beauty and pleasure sweep along and away, while the sun that primed them dried her veins. —  Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
  • Thought of the briefest of replies was a mountain of effort, and she moaned at her nervelessness in body and mind. —  Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 2
  • London, amazed at her frenzy of power, and again, from that contemplation, amazed at her present nervelessness. —  Rhoda Fleming — Volume 5
  • "Slow," he muttered, and a strange fit of nervelessness came over him. —  Under Western Eyes
 

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