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
It sharply reproved both inquisitors and episcopal ordinaries for the supineness which alone could explain the threatening spread of heresy.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea
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 Lewis Wingfield
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
Again they would meet two or three royalists talking in a dejected, disparaging way of the victory; or else blustering in anger over the supineness or inefficiency of their generals.
From A Song of a Single Note A Love Story by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
