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Meanings of enervation in English

Serious weakening and loss of energy.

        Usage of enervation in English
        1
        The young do not flourish there; they escape from the soft enervation.
        Sacred and Profane Love: A Novel in Three Episodes
        2
        The luscious softness of the Italian airs overcame me with a delicious enervation.
        Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography
        3
        And thus are being sown the seeds of our national enervation.
        The Schemes of the Kaiser
        4
        And from this time his enervation was steadily on the increase.
        The Campaign of Chancellorsville
        5
        By the end of that Sunday his enervation was complete.
        The Devil's Garden
        6
        This delicious enervation had to be constantly resisted and dominated by a superior will.
        Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
        7
        She had never felt such helpless enervation in her life.
        Hell House
        8
        This principle neither the rudeness of ignorance can stifle nor the enervation of refinement extinguish.
        Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Fr...
        9
        His great strength seemed to have left him, and in its place was a complete enervation.
        Gladiator
        10
        At first he attributed it to fatigue and the enervation of the first days of spring.
        Jean-Christophe, Volume I
        11
        They overlook the ultimate enervation that is so often the price paid for the temporary exaltation.
        On Compromise
        12
        But ever the recurrent lights revealed her sweetly incarnate if deep in enervation of crushing weariness.
        The False Faces: Further Adventures from the History of the Lone...
        13
        Why these tremblings of the heart, this emotion of the spirit, this enervation of the body?
        Original Short Stories — Volume 05
        14
        A desolate enervation of spirit descended upon her, a sort of bitter, and yet dull, perplexity.
        The Garden of Allah
        15
        That principle which neither the rudeness of ignorance can stifle, nor the enervation of refinement extinguish!
        The American Union Speaker
        16
        There will be long stretches of idleness, heat, and enervation; and always the odour of drying coconut.
        The Ragged Edge
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