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
On the part of the senate itself there must be no apathy, no supineness, no dilettanteism, but a stern, vigorous determination stringently and impartially to enforce prompt obedience to its edicts.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various
From the supineness of sickness and despair, I was at last forced to momentary exertion.
From Discipline by Brunton, Mary
The Buccaneers, with the carelessness natural to men in their loose condition of life, under neither command nor guidance, continued to trust to the supineness of the enemy for their safety, and neglected all precaution.
From History of the Buccaneers of America by Burney, James
His impression was that the Mikado's supineness rose not from weakness but from indifference, out of which he might be roused.
From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Wingfield, Lewis
