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debilitation
English
Etymology
From Middle French débilitation
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d?b?l??te???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
debilitation (countable and uncountable, plural debilitations)
- The act or process of debilitating, or the condition of one who is debilitated; weakness.
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debility
English
Etymology
From Middle English debylite, from Old French debilité (French débilité), from Latin d?bilit?s (“weakness”), from d?bilis (“weak”), from d?- + habilis (“able”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??b?l?ti/
- Rhymes: -?l?ti
Noun
debility (countable and uncountable, plural debilities)
- A state of physical or mental weakness.
- 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein.
- As I was in a state of extreme debility, I resolved to sail directly towards the town, as a place where I could most easily procure nourishment.
- […]
- I was ready to sink from fatigue and hunger, but being surrounded by a crowd, I thought it politic to rouse all my strength, that no physical debility might be construed into apprehension or conscious guilt.
- 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein.
Related terms
- debile
- debilitate
- debilitation
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Further reading
- debility in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- debility in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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