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
The sheer feebleness of it rendered it unanswerable.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 30, 2022
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
Less common are the following: mental hebetude, lasting some days or even weeks after the close of the last paroxysm, or, as in a case of Carter's, gradually increasing mental feebleness, terminating in imbecility.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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