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Inanition

noun

Weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy. Synonyms: lassitude, lethargy, slackness.

Exhaustion resulting from lack of food.

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"Inanition" Quotes from Famous Books

... remarks of the author read: "Nous avons fait entrer cette observation dans le cadre des delires apyretiques d'inanition, car c'est a l'ischemie cerebrale que nous rattachons cet ...

— Dream Psychology - Psychoanalysis for Beginners • Sigmund Freud

... or by what volition; Borne now here, now thither, in blind inanition. Out of this abysmal, nebulous dim distance, Haunted by a dismal, ...

— The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems • Frances Fuller Victor

... possible, we both remained at the young man's side during the whole of the night. As the concierge had said, he was perishing from inanition, and the physician we called in assured us that only the most constant attention would save ...

— Esmeralda • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... would certainly starve,—not in the figurative sense in which so many of our ladies and gentlemen do starve on incomes from one to five hundred a year; not that he would be starved as regarded dress coats, port wine, and pocket-money; but that he would positively perish of inanition ...

— The Warden • Anthony Trollope

... view, the great Confederate strategist was right: he was conducting the campaign on the principle Lee so admirably adopted in Virginia. But President Davis had more than a military question to solve. If he could not seize the granaries of the watershed, the Confederacy would die of inanition. ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII. No. 31. October, 1873. • Various

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