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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)

  1. 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)

  1. 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.

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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