supineness
- a word derived from supine.
Example Sentences
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After years of supineness, therefore, the American Government will now have to spring into sudden, vigorous, often risky action .
From Time Magazine Archive
Had Dr. McLoughlin acted with the supineness of the Methodist Mission toward the immigrants of 1843, 1844, and 1845, and especially that of 1843, the consequences would have been terrible.
From Dr. John McLoughlin, the Father of Oregon by Holman, Frederick Van Voorhies
From the supineness of sickness and despair, I was at last forced to momentary exertion.
From Discipline by Brunton, Mary
Meanwhile, the Directory's supineness in pushing on the war on the Rhine is enabling the Austrians to send large reinforcements against Napoleon.
From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Hall, Henry Foljambe
It sharply reproved both inquisitors and episcopal ordinaries for the supineness which alone could explain the threatening spread of heresy.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles
