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I've read a few reports that seem to indicate that Allen is pleading feebleness and perhaps playing up his mental health issues in a play for leniency.

From Salon • Sep. 19, 2023

The sheer feebleness of it rendered it unanswerable.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 30, 2022

Liz had become accustomed to Grandma’s feebleness in her last years; her youthful strength came as a wonderful surprise.

From Nature • Dec. 17, 2019

Its medical potential could liberate us from our bodily feebleness, and its political potential could ultimately subjugate the entire species to dull, dutiful conformity.

From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2019

Even the abb� had not expected that she would show such feebleness of purpose.

From The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis