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Meanings of limpness in English

Catalan
flacciditat
Spanish
flojedad

A flabby softness.

flacciditat
Usage of limpness in English
1
The left arm hung with that limpness which denotes a broken bone.
A Pagan of the Hills
2
Nicholas had none of the moral limpness and vacillating character of his predecessor.
Russia
3
He could look with righteous toleration upon the limpness of his fellow prisoner.
The Trail of the White Mule
4
Possibly his confidence is to be ascribed to the limpness of their attitudes.
The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories
5
Her own was warm, and there was no limpness about it.
T. Tembarom
6
But his limpness seemed to impart itself to me, and I- Igaveway.
A Pair of Patient Lovers
7
My arms were weak and of a strange, flabby limpness, but they moved.
The Firefly of France
8
But when she sought to rise, she sank back with an ominous limpness.
Bloom of Cactus
9
It showed in the limpness of his face, the tightness of his body.
Way Station
10
She lay in a horrid heap unmistakable in its limpness.
The Unwilling Vestal
11
I freely confess to my own inaction and limpness; but it was all deliberate.
The Lost Continent
12
Then the limpness became softness, and the very creases took the lines of beauty.
Wives and Daughters
13
Other symptoms include difficulty with breathing or breast-feeding and limpness.
Reuters
14
For a while he was aware only of exhaustion, limpness.
Gather, Darkness!
15
Her daughter's stillness went beyond the limpness of infant sleep.
The strain
16
The conditioning broke in heavily, forced me into impact-ready limpness-
Broken angels
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Limpness through the time