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

se were first found in the gypsum quarries near Paris; characterized by the shortness and feebleness of their canine teeth (whence the name).

Tendency to fall; the feebleness of old age; senility. [R.] [A] jumble of youth and caducity. Chesterfield.

The state of being weak; weakness; feebleness; languor. The inconveniences of too strong a perspiration, which are debility, faintness, and sometimes sudden death. Arbuthnot.

Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind, particularly in old age; the childishness of old age; senility; as, a venerable man, now in his dotage. Capable of distinguishing between the infancy and the dotage of Greek literature. Macaulay.

Feebleness, as of color or light; lack of distinctness; as, faintness of description.

Hesitation; trembling; feebleness; an uncertain or broken sound; as, a slight falter in her voice. The falter of an idle shepherd's pipe. Lowell.

To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness; as, to flag the wings. prior.

Weakness; feebleness. An appearance of delicacy, and even of fragility, is almost essential to it [beauty]. Burke.

The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, esp. of mind. Cruelty . . . argues not only a depravedness of nature, but also a meanness of courage and imbecility of mind. Sir W. Temple.

n of being impotent; want of strength or power, animal, intellectual, or moral; weakness; feebleness; inability; imbecility. Some were poor by impotency of nature; as young fatherless children, old decrepit persons, idiots, and cripples. Hayward. O, impotence of mind in body strong! Milton.

Unfitness; ineptitude. The feebleness and miserable ineptness of infancy. Dr. H. More.

The state of being infirm; feebleness; an imperfection or weakness; esp., an unsound, unhealthy, or debilitated state; a disease; a malady; as, infirmity of body or mind. 'T is the infirmity of his age. Shak.

Infirmity; feebleness. Boyle.

or mind which is caused by exhaustion of strength and characterized by a languid feeling; feebleness; lassitude; laxity.

The quality or state of being puny; littleness; pettiness; feebleness.

The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.

Want of strength; weakness; feebleness. [Obs.] Wyclif.

ak; want of strength or firmness; lack of vigor; want of resolution or of moral strength; feebleness.