enervation

Example Sentences

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If this level of enervation persisted, it could take years to make it through all three seasons of “Succession.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 11, 2022

It’s not insane to throw yourself into a sea of anxious rumor, if it helps ward off enervation and despair.

From Slate • Nov. 16, 2016

Nor, he added, was he ashamed of performing a job that causes almost daily enervation to the residents of New York.

From New York Times • Sep. 17, 2015

In contrast, failure naturally elicits bitterness, resentment, dolour, enervation, listlessness, pessimism and low self‑esteem – a pretty ugly package.

From The Guardian • Jun. 22, 2013

The thinkers of Athens and Rome established the doctrine, which has retained its ground to our days, that states, nations, civilizations, perished only through luxury, enervation, bad government, corruption of morals, fanaticism.

From The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)