feebless

English

Etymology

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

Noun

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 […]

Anagrams

beefless, feblesse

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