supineness
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After years of supineness, therefore, the American Government will now have to spring into sudden, vigorous, often risky action .
From Time Magazine Archive
And meantime the supineness of the mass of the citizens was marvellous.
From Chippinge Borough by Weyman, Stanley J.
Sir Horace, on the other hand, had no idea of letting this supineness on the part of the enemy influence his own policy.
From The First Seven Divisions Being a Detailed Account of the Fighting from Mons to Ypres by Hamilton, Ernest W.
I shall make bold to say that nothing but the general ignorance of the facts can account for the extraordinary supineness of the mass of English practitioners with regard to this question.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Anstie, Francis E.
Meanwhile, the Directory's supineness in pushing on the war on the Rhine is enabling the Austrians to send large reinforcements against Napoleon.
From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Hall, Henry Foljambe
