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Partisanship, the first president observed, “serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026

In a letter to Dr. Gabadadze and other deans, they wrote that they worried about setting “a precedent, completely lacking in due process, that could undermine faculty freedoms and correspondingly enfeeble proven pedagogic practices.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2022

Their goal is to blunt and enfeeble criticism and distract from its truthfulness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2022

It will forever be the least dangerous branch, but that is no reason to enfeeble it further.

From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2018

In the eyes of Judaism, to neglect or enfeeble the body, the instrument of the soul, is altogether sinful.

From Jewish Theology by Kohler, Kaufmann

But knowing the hallmarks of classic style will make anyone a better writer, and it is the strongest cure I know for the disease that enfeebles academic, bureaucratic, corporate, legal, and official prose.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Not only does it hasten their decay to allow seeds to ripen, but materially enfeebles the entire plant.

From Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

A doubting conscience enfeebles a man’s spiritual vigour for work.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews by Edwards, Thomas Charles

The one enfeebles the body, the other cripples the intellect, and aggravates envy, hatred, and malice.

From Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities by Inman, Thomas

They tell us now that all is good; that evil is but blessing in disguise, that pain makes strong and virtuous men—makes character—while pleasure enfeebles and degrades.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Ingersoll, Robert Green

The former Red Army is in an enfeebled state.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025

She engenders compassion as Elisabeth grapples with her aging body, and a scene where she is enfeebled and struggles to get out of a chair is both achingly painful and achingly funny.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2024

Added to this, Congress, which governed India for decades, looks enfeebled and in decline.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2024

The empire carried on in an enfeebled state, but over the ensuing decades, Chang’an ceded much military and civil authority to provincial warlords.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

One historian called Chernenko "an enfeebled geriatric so zombie-like as to be beyond assessing intelligence reports, alarming or not."

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

His balding head’s scraggly hair—in contrast to the wigs worn by just about every Frenchman at the time, no matter the social class—is both ennobling and a bit enfeebling, like an aging but distinguished mane.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

They fear that the enfeebling of the judiciary will compromise the rule of law and make the economy unattractive for investment.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2023

It’s an image that evokes an enfeebling combination of envy and rage, as it becomes increasingly clear that the botters are perpetually one step ahead of our mere keyboards and mouses.

From The Verge ● May 25, 2022

That is, what if books by Coelho, Mitch Albom and others don’t satisfy a market so much as create it, enfeebling their readers while purporting to strengthen them with revelations?

From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2020

You are constantly enfeebling our resources and rendering us more and more tributary to distant parts of the nation.

From The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It by Helper, Hinton Rowan