feebless
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French feblesce, from feble (“feeble”).
Noun[edit]
feebless (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Feebleness; weakness, infirmity.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- They passing forth kept on their readie way, / With easie steps so soft as foot could stryde, / Both for great feeblesse, which did oft assay / Faire Amoret that scarcely she could ryde, / And eke through heavie armes […]