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Webster 1913 Edition

Feebleness

Fee′ble-ness

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Noun.
The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity.
That shakes for age and
feebleness
.
Shakespeare

Webster 1828 Edition

Feebleness

FEE'BLENESS

, n.
1.
Weakness of body or mind, from any cause; imbecility; infirmity; want of strength, physical or intellectual; as feebleness of the body or limbs; feebleness of the mind or understanding.
2.
Want of fullness or loudness; as feebleness of voice.
3.
Want of vigor or force; as feebleness of exertion, or of operation.
4.
Defect of brightness; as feebleness of light or color.

Definition 2024

feebleness

feebleness

English

Noun

feebleness ‎(countable and uncountable, plural feeblenesses)

  1. The quality or state of being feeble; debility; infirmity.
    • 1962 (quoting c. 1398 text), Hans Kurath & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, page 1242:
      dorrẹ̅, dōrī adj. & n. […] Golden or reddish-yellow […] (a. 1398) *Trev. Barth. 59b/a: ʒelouʒ colour [of urine] […] tokeneþ febleness of hete […] dorrey & citrine & liʒt red tokeneþ mene.}}

References

  • feebleness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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