Example Sentences

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And when art is merely sensuous, it is enfeebling and demoralizing rather than strengthening or elevating.

From Character by Smiles, Samuel

The warm bath tub is enfeebling and degenerative, despite the cold spray later, while the free swim in cold water is most invigorating.

From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by Hall, G. Stanley