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
On the part of the senate itself there must be no apathy, no supineness, no dilettanteism, but a stern, vigorous determination stringently and impartially to enforce prompt obedience to its edicts.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various
However, if all this historical guesswork has some foundation with regard to Louis XI.'s inaction, Master Cornélius Hoogworst cannot be accused of supineness.
From The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories by Balzac, Honor? de
The Buccaneers, with the carelessness natural to men in their loose condition of life, under neither command nor guidance, continued to trust to the supineness of the enemy for their safety, and neglected all precaution.
From History of the Buccaneers of America by Burney, James
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
