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It is enervating sitting in this deadly, static atmosphere with people thinking only of pen, ink, papers and figures.

From Time Magazine Archive

The inevitable effect of slavery is enervating and demoralizing.

From Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch by Lane, Mary E. Bradley

If long-continued peace is enervating, it is mere self-stultification to plead for conscription on the ground that it will still further prolong that enervating condition.

From The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Angell, Norman

Mr. J. H. Willis, a Norwich scientist, writing in The Morning Post, condemns the daylight-saving movement on the ground that too much sunshine is enervating and that life is more virile in Northern latitudes.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 3, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

The climate is enervating and is apt to reduce moral as well as physical vitality.

From Modern India by Curtis, William Eleroy