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Imbecility

noun
(pl. imbecilities)
1.
Retardation more severe than a moron but not as severe as an idiot.
2.
A stupid mistake.  Synonyms: betise, folly, foolishness, stupidity.





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... States again and again, only that I might have the thought that one of them—though I knew not which—might be this lady's, and that in so infinitesimal a degree I had been near her again. Will it be estimated extreme imbecility in me when I ventured the additional confession that I felt a great warmth and tenderness toward the possessors of all these names, as being, if not herself, at ...
— The Beautiful Lady • Booth Tarkington
... him. The eye that spared not woman in its lust, Glaring with maniac terror, sinks in death. The homicidal hand, whose fiendish skill Made man its victim, crushed and bleeding lies. The crafty tongue, a ready instrument Of that most subtle wickedness, his brain, Babbles in fatuous imbecility." —Holofernes, a Mystery. ...
— Frank Fairlegh - Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil • Frank E. Smedley
... prerogatives of a master, he is excused from cultivating the faculties of a man. Coercion begins by producing pain, by violently alienating the mind from the truth with which we wish it to be impressed. It includes a tacit confession of imbecility. ...
— Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle • H. N. Brailsford
... State. It banishes free white labor—it exterminates the mechanic—the artisan—the manufacturer. It deprives them of occupation. It deprives them of bread. It converts the energy of a community into indolence—its power into imbecility—its efficiency into weakness. Sir, being thus injurious, have we not a right to demand its extermination! Shall society suffer, that the slaveholder may continue to gather his vigintial crop ...
— An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans • Lydia Maria Child
... which he excited in his day is scarcely to be wondered at; for, though this judgment has not been ratified by posterity, Filicaja has at least the merit of having raised the poetry of Italy from the abject service of mere amorous imbecility to the noble office of embodying the more manly and virtuous sentiments; and though his style is infected with the bombastic spirit of the age, it is even in this respect singularly moderate, compared with ...
— Handbook of Universal Literature - From The Best and Latest Authorities • Anne C. Lynch Botta


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