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Example sentences for "enfeeble"

Lexicographically close words:
enew; enfance; enfans; enfant; enfants; enfeebled; enfeeblement; enfeebles; enfeebling; enfeoffed
  1. Hervilly come at {314} the moment of victory to divide and enfeeble the defence.

  2. It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration.

  3. If we try to teach speech too early and really succeed in fixing the child's attention upon its tongue, we enfeeble its power of utterance.

  4. Every time we cut ourselves off from nutrition, we enfeeble them.

  5. Occupations which involve deprivation of fresh air and sunlight, and all trades which enfeeble the individual, make him liable to all digestive disorders.

  6. It is being unfaithful to the soul to enfeeble its servant; it is being much more unfaithful to it still, to enslave it to its servant.

  7. It serves always to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration.

  8. It serves always to distract the public councils, and enfeeble the public administration.

  9. The warm meat too often presented to these creatures is apt to enfeeble their digestions; for their stomachs are soon deranged, and they never should be allowed to taste any kind of food which is not perfectly cold.

  10. Breeding in and in, to a certainty, would enfeeble their intellects as surely as their constitutions.

  11. Do I mean to say that the effect of this work may be to enfeeble power, to shake its stability, to diminish its authority?

  12. There are people who believe that by circumscribing the province of Government you enfeeble it.

  13. The first effect of this poison on Sarsia is to quicken the swimming motions, and then to enfeeble them progressively till they degenerate into mere spasmodic twitches.

  14. On Sarsia the first effect is to quicken the contractions and then to enfeeble them.

  15. The effect of very warm water, therefore, is to slow the rhythm, as well, I may add, as to enfeeble the vigour of the contractions.

  16. It serves always to distract the Public Councils and enfeeble the Public Administration.

  17. Gentlemen, let any man who would degrade and enfeeble the national Constitution, let any man who would nullify its laws, stand forth and tell us what he would wish.

  18. The progressive partitioning of landed estates, essentially contrary to the spirit of a monarchical government, would enfeeble the guaranties which the charter has given to my throne and to my subjects.

  19. Not only must an undue struggle with unfavourable conditions enfeeble the strong as well as kill the feeble; it also imposes an intolerable burden upon these enfeebled survivors.

  20. Idleness of itself weakens them, and disposes them to those Debauches, which enfeeble them still more.

  21. It is my intention that he should only speak of the Russians to humiliate them, to enfeeble their forces, to prove how their trashy reputation in military matters, and the praises of their armies, are without foundation.

  22. It is the mournful effect of a weakening of the moral sense in the chief of a state, to enfeeble that moral sense at the same time, and by an inevitable contagion, amongst his rivals and adversaries.

  23. Let him grant the man what he wishes; cajole him, corrupt him altogether, and enfeeble all his nerves.

  24. Closeness would cramp and paraphrase would enfeeble their sense, which may be felt, but can not be expressed.

  25. Mysteries taught how to enfeeble the action of matter on the Soul, 520-l.

  26. Neither his reason nor his will was in fault; all he wanted, was strength to break the diminutive chains of habit; chains which, it seems, have power to enfeeble their captives exactly in proportion to the length of time they are worn.

  27. Their faith in reason, like that of the vulgar, cannot be shaken, nor can defeat, running through thousands of years, enfeeble their courage or dampen their ardor.

  28. To surround the young with what they ought themselves to achieve is to enfeeble and corrupt them.

  29. At the same time a worldly Church and a corrupt hierarchy had done their utmost to enfeeble the spirit of Christianity.

  30. Lorenzo deliberately set himself to enfeeble the people by luxury, partly because he liked voluptuous living, partly because he aimed at popularity, and partly because it was his interest to enervate republican virtues.

  31. They appear in immense numbers on the young and tender shoots of trees, and by sucking their juices check or enfeeble the growth.

  32. Every bud that can reach the air and light will start upward, and thus there may be a thick growth of incipient vines that will crowd and enfeeble each other.

  33. We should not injure and enfeeble the original vine in order to get others like it.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "enfeeble" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.