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But knowing the hallmarks of classic style will make anyone a better writer, and it is the strongest cure I know for the disease that enfeebles academic, bureaucratic, corporate, legal, and official prose.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Pope availed himself of the false construction with a freedom which seriously deforms and enfeebles much of his poetry.

From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Pope, Alexander

A great deal of wealth and success is the cause of luxury that enfeebles, loss of calm, quiet happiness, loss of love, leaving only the flattery that captivates.

From Gold Dust A Collection of Golden Counsels for the Sanctification of Daily Life by E. L. E. B.

Such protracted tension of the muscles enfeebles their action, and ultimately destroys their power of contraction.

From Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes by Mayhew, Ira

This keen and continual operation enfeebles you, because it consumes so rapidly the more sensible and marked operations of the soul.

From Letters of Madam Guyon by Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte