supineness

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After years of supineness, therefore, the American Government will now have to spring into sudden, vigorous, often risky action .

From Time Magazine Archive

In the first Hegel showed how the supineness of the committee of estates in W�rttemberg had favoured the usurpations of the superior officials in whom the court had found compliant servants.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various

I shall make bold to say that nothing but the general ignorance of the facts can account for the extraordinary supineness of the mass of English practitioners with regard to this question.

From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Anstie, Francis E.

Should they, by way of relaxation, cease to work for three days in the year, they are not to be blamed for laziness or supineness.

From The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal by Bose, Shib Chunder

Meanwhile, the Directory's supineness in pushing on the war on the Rhine is enabling the Austrians to send large reinforcements against Napoleon.

From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Hall, Henry Foljambe