feebless

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noun

Feebleness; weakness, infirmity.

OriginOld French feblesce →
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Meanings

nounfeebless (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountableFeebleness; weakness, infirmity.

    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 […]

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Old Frenchfeblesce
  2. Englishfeebless

From Old French feblesce, from feble (“feeble”).

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

feebless. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/feebless

MLA

“feebless.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/feebless. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “feebless,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/feebless.

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