feeble-mindedness
Example Sentences
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Goddard’s proposed cure to the nation’s feeble-mindedness was widely implemented.
From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2021
The Ohio researcher said that some of his subjects were "greatly influenced by the pleasant appearance or smile, but for some the smile denotes intelligence and for others it denotes feeble-mindedness."
From Slate ● Jan. 10, 2012
The method of Binet and Simon renders possible a fairly exact measurement of feeble-mindedness.
From The Task of Social Hygiene by Havelock Ellis
The conclusions reached are numerous and important, but the one of greatest theoretical interest is this, that feeble-mindedness is inherited as a simple recessive Mendelian unit-character.
From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various
Neither did he die an old man, to whom the adherents of monism would certainly have the effrontery to impute feeble-mindedness, but at the early age of forty-six years.
From At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers by Edwin V. O'Harra
