feebleness
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I've read a few reports that seem to indicate that Allen is pleading feebleness and perhaps playing up his mental health issues in a play for leniency.
From Salon • Sep. 19, 2023
Liz had become accustomed to Grandma’s feebleness in her last years; her youthful strength came as a wonderful surprise.
From Nature • Dec. 17, 2019
Its medical potential could liberate us from our bodily feebleness, and its political potential could ultimately subjugate the entire species to dull, dutiful conformity.
From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2019
“Our observations about the feebleness of Tracy’s blows and the lack of impact they had on Alcee’s death are not intended to minimize the wrongfulness of Tracy’s behavior,” Justice Gary Traynor wrote for the court.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 1, 2018
This I say to you, for I have come to trust you and to lean on you, Michael; but you must never hint to others that I complain of age or feebleness.
From Cardigan by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
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