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

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.

From the supineness of sickness and despair, I was at last forced to momentary exertion.

From Discipline by Brunton, Mary

And, surely, fire and sword are not the instruments with which to cure the evils which our own supineness, want of statecraft, and mis-legislation have permitted to poison the atmosphere.

From The Mormon Puzzle, and How to Solve It by Beers, R. W.

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