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单词 debility
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debilityn.

/dɪˈbɪlɪti/
Forms: Also Middle English–1500s debylite, debilyte, debilytee, debilytye, 1500s–1600s debilytie.
Etymology: < French débilité (Oresme, 14th cent.), < Latin dēbilitās, < dēbilis weak.
1.
a. The condition of being weak or feeble; weakness, infirmity; want of strength; esp. that condition of the body in which the vital functions generally are feebly discharged.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] > weakness
faintise1297
weaknessa1300
faintc1320
feebleness1340
languishingc1384
lamea1400
unferea1400
unferenessa1400
unwielda1400
impotence1406
imbecility?a1425
languisha1425
languoringa1438
unwieldness1437
faintnessa1440
impotency1440
infirmityc1440
debility1484
unlustiness1486
resolution1547
unwieldiness1575
languishment1576
infirmness1596
weakness1603
prostrationa1626
exolution1634
languidness1634
prosternation1650
faintingnessa1661
debilitude1669
flaccidity1676
atony1693
puniness1727
faintishness1733
adynamia1743
asthenia1802
adynamy1817
weakliness1826
tonelessness1873
atonicity1900
1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope v. xii The grete feblenesse and debylyte of thy lene body.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. cliii For his feblenesse or debylyte of Age.
1545 T. Raynald in tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. sig. H.h.vii To help ye debilite of nature, wt cupping glassis.
1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Idleness, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) ii. 517 By reason of age, debility of body, or want of health.
1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 105 By reason of the debility of his stomack.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. iv. 331 After full three hours ineffectual labour..the men being quite jaded, we were obliged, by mere debility, to desist.
1867 C. Kingsley Lett. (1878) II. 260 With the cure of stammering, nervous debility decreases.
1879 G. C. Harlan Eyesight vi. 89 After long illness, the muscle of accommodation shares the debility of the whole system.
b. Weakness of a material structure. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > constitution of matter > weakness > [noun]
unfastness1398
debility1570
insolidity1578
unsoundness1605
tenderness1708
flimsiness1816
immateriality1886
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 353/2 Eyther by the debilitie of the bridge, or subteltie of the souldiours..Three thousande of them with bridge and all, fell armed into the violent streame.
2. Weakness in a mental or moral quality.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > weakness of character or will
unmighteOE
frailnessa1300
infirmityc1384
debility1474
brittleness1493
brucklenessc1500
weak side1668
weakness1748
washiness1763
feebleness1809–10
enervation1849
weak-mindedness1854
feet of clay1859
will-lessness1865
bonelessness1869
molluscousness1870
limpness1873
backbonelessness1882
invertebracy1882
weak-kneedness1882
invertebrateness1884
spinelessness1920
gutlessness1936
1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iii. i. 80 For the debilite and feblenes of corage.
1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) iv. xi. sig. v.i After ye debylyte, of stragylyte [sic] humayne.
1758 H. Walpole Catal. Royal Authors (1759) II. 219 This Lord had much debility of mind, and a kind of superstitious scruples.
1805 J. Foster Ess. ii. iv. 176 This debility of purpose.
1829 I. Taylor Nat. Hist. Enthusiasm (1867) ii. 33 A wretched debility and dejection of the heart.
3. Political, social, or pecuniary weakness.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > poverty > [noun]
waedlec888
wanspeedc893
wanea1100
wandrethc1175
miseasea1200
povertya1225
lowness?c1225
needc1225
orcostc1225
poorness?a1300
unwealtha1300
defaultc1300
porailc1325
straitnessa1340
poorhead1340
mischiefa1375
miseasetya1382
needinessa1382
misterc1385
indigencec1386
scarcitya1387
noughtc1400
scantnessc1400
necessity?1406
penurya1425
povertnessa1434
exilitya1439
wantc1450
scarcenessc1475
needinga1500
povertiesa1500
penurity?a1505
poortith?a1513
debility1525
tenuity1535
leanness1550
lack1555
Needham1577
inopy1581
pinching1587
dispurveyance1590
egency1600
macritude1623
penuriousness1630
indigency1631
needihood1648
necessitousness1650
egestuosity1656
straitened circumstancesa1766
unopulence1796
Queer Street1811
lowliness1834
breadlessness1860
unwealthiness1886
out-of-elbowness1890
secondary poverty1901
Short Street1920
society > authority > lack of power > [noun]
un-i-waldeOE
impotencea1420
debility1525
unpowerfulness1625
impuissance1645
imprevalencea1656
imprevalencya1656
impuissancy1701
weakness1838
1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. ccxxxviij [ccxxxiv] 738 The debylyte of the realme of Englande.
1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII c. 1 §1 Wylling to releue and helpe his saide subiectes in their said necessities and debilitye.
1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) I. 139 Which B. could not have for the debility of his estate.
1872 J. Morley Voltaire iv. 172 The debility of the courts of Austria and France.
4.
a. (with plural) An instance of weakness. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > [noun] > moral weakness > a moral weakness
debilitya1533
frailtya1616
weakness1645
foible1673
feeble1678
foiblesse1685
weak point1827
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. E.viij The open honestee supplyeth many fautes and debilytees.
1654 E. Wolley tr. ‘G. de Scudéry’ Curia Politiæ 61 They to guarde us from humane passions, and the debilities of Nature.
1825 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Wks. (1859) I. 82 Among the debilities of the government of the Confederation.
b. Astrology. Of a planet: A weakness or diminution of influence due to unfavourable position, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the universe > heavenly body > as influence on mankind > [noun] > influence > planet as > situation of > weak influence
descensionc1386
dejection1430
fall?1583
detrimenta1640
debility1647
debilitude1669
impediment1819
1647 W. Lilly Christian Astrol. To Rdr. 2 I would have him..well to understand the Debilities and Fortitudes of every Planet.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) (at cited word) Debilities are either Essential, when a Planet is in its Detriment, Fall, or Peregrine; or Accidental, when it is in the 12th, 8th, or 6th Houses; or Combust, etc. So that by each of those Circumstances, a Planet is more or less afflicted, and said to have so many or so few Debilities.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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