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Definition of Enervating
1. Adjective. Causing debilitation.
Similar to: Debilitating
Derivative terms: Debilitate
Definition of Enervating
1. Verb. (present participle of enervate) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Enervating
1. enervate [v] - See also: enervate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enervating
Literary usage of Enervating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"... to the laissez-faire principle, disavowed it when, as in the case of the
Factory Acts, he held that interference could protect without enervating. ..."
2. Aristocracy and Evolution: A Study of the Rights, the Origin, and the Social by William Hurrell Mallock (1898)
"There were other regions yet more fertile, but these were enervating; and here
the inhabitants of the former enslaved the weaker inhabitants of the latter. ..."
3. Origines Ecclesiasticæ: Or, The Antiquities of the Christian Church, and by Joseph Bingham, Richard Bingham (1840)
"... in exempting Men from Legal Punishment, and enervating the Force of Civil Laws.
In which respect, most of the modern sanctuaries have been complained of ..."
4. Letter to a Member of the General Assembly of Virginia, on the Subject of by St George Tucker (1801)
"... lefs favourable to a continuation of their kind: equally removed from chilling
want and enervating luxury, they uniformly enjoy that golden mean, ..."
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