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Definition of Feebly

1. Adverb. In a faint and feeble manner. "The lighthouse, flashing feebly against the sleet-blurred, rocky backdrop of the coast of north west Norway"

2. Adverb. In a halting and feeble manner. "Reform, in fact, is, rather feebly, on the win"

Definition of Feebly

1. adv. In a feeble manner.

Definition of Feebly

1. Adverb. In a feeble manner. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Feebly

1. feeble [adv] - See also: feeble

Medical Definition of Feebly

1. In a feeble manner. "The restored church . . . Contended feebly, and with half a heart." (Macaulay) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Feebly

feebates feeble feeble-minded feeble-mindedness feebled feebleminded feeblemindedly feeblemindedness feebleness feeblenesses

feebler feebles feeblest feebling feeblish feebly (current term) feebs feechur feechurs feed

feed-bag feed-drive feed-forward activation feed-horn feed-horns feed-through feed a cold, starve a fever feed back feed bag feed bunk

Literary usage of Feebly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1918)
"Pronotum subquadrate; lateral margins cingulate and very feebly diverging caudad, caudal angles more broadly rounded than cephalic angles, caudal margin ..."

2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"The barbarians finding it .mpossible to traverse the Danube and the Roman camp, broke through the posts in their rear, which were more feebly or less ..."

3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1915)
"The Journal OF Nervous and Mental Disease An American Monthly Journal of Neurology and Psychiatry, Founded in (874 Original articles THE feebly INHIBITED. ..."

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