enervate
Definition: To weaken or deprive of strength
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Jane Eyre - By Charlotte Bront
...Or would the sight of it bring recollections calculated to enervate and distress ? "...
The Return of the Native - By Thomas Hardy, John William Cunliffe
...He had once before felt in his own person this overpowering of the fervid by the inanimate; but then it had tended to enervate a passion far sweeter than that which at present pervaded him ....
The mill on the Floss - By George Eliot, Charles Henshaw Ward
...But Mr. Tulliver was determined not to encourage such shuffling people any longer; and a ride along the Basset lanes was not likely to enervate a man 's resolution by softening his temper ....
A Guide to the Best Fiction in English - By Ernest Albert Baker
...Wealth and the social life that wealth entails in America enervate her spiritual nature ....
Vivian Grey - By Benjamin Disraeli
...`` I discard all such fantasies, " said Mr. Beckendorff; `` they only tend to enervate our mental energies and paralyse all human exertion ....
A Descriptive Guide to the Best Fiction, British and American - By Ernest Albert Baker, Baker
...Wealth and the social life that wealth entails in America enervate her spiritual nature ....
The Rise of the Russian Empire - By Saki
...In that other Empire, whose luxurious capital seemed to enervate and paralyse the manhood of its rulers, the Catholic dynasty had drooped and shrivelled, and when the trade jealousies of Genoa led her to strike with the Greeks against the Latin allies of her hated rival, Venice, the end was at hand; the House of Courtenay gave way to that of Paleologus, and the formula " proceeding from the Father by the Son " re-echoed once more in the high places of S. Sofia ....
Jane Field - By Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
...Even when Mrs. Field made no expression of anxiety, there was a covert distress about her which seemed to enervate the atmosphere, and hinder the girl in the fight she was making against her own weakness ....
Barriers Burned Away - By Edw. Payson Roe
...The warm spring days seemed rather to enervate than to strengthen her ....
The Technique of the Novel - By Charles Francis Horne
...Thus the novel finds its appropriate source among the unlearned, among those unlettered child Teutons, whose warrior strength so easily outmatched an enervate antiquity ....
Pamphlets in Philology and the Humanities - By James Hayden Tufts, W Wetz, Hugo Helbing, Edward Thomas Owen, George J Tamson, A. L. Pogodin, Karl Brugmann, James Dowden Bruner, A Leskien, Wm E Bohn, William Edward Bohn, Mario Rossi, William Warner Bishop, George Rebec, Otto Knapp, Frank Gaylord Hubbard, Carl Meinhof, Frank Egbert Bryant, Rollo Ogden, Hugo Edward Eick, Fred Newton Scott, Hamilton Holt, Josephine May Burnham, Harry Gilbert Paul, Alexis Frederick Lange, John Harrower, Raymond Durbin Miller
...E. the prefix is accented only in such verbs as educate, elevate, emanate, enervate -LRB- cf ....
My Winter Garden - By Maurice Thompson
...Doubtless the Southern summer added to the Southern winter would enervate us; but the birds found out eons ago that a swinging life, alternating summer in a high latitude with winter in the warm South, afforded just the climatic influences necessary to perfect health ....
A Descriptive Guide to the Best Fiction, British and American, Including ... - By Ernest A. Baker, Baker
...Wealth and the social life that wealth entails in America enervate her spiritual nature ....
The Money-lender - By Catherine Grace F. Gore, Gore (Catherine Grace Frances), Mrs Gore
...But instead of profiting by my liberty to resume the enervate habits of life which four years ot thraldom had rendered irksome, I devoted myself solely and exclusively to the worship of Mammon ....
Tales for the Grave and the Gay -
...the majority of his comrades, she knew he was the last man on earth to affect the enervate appendage of a serving-man; nor was the figure by which he was accompanied by any means characteristic of a degree inferior to his own ....
Jane Eyre - By Charlotte Bront
...Or would the sight of it bring recollections calculated to enervate and distress ? "...