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The act of weakening; enervation; weakness.

ENERVATION
1. The act of weakening, or reducing strength. 2. The state of being weakened; effeminacy. Bacon.
WEAKNESS
1. The quality or state of being weak; want of strength or firmness; lack of vigor; want of resolution or of moral strength; feebleness. 2. That which is a mark of lack of strength or resolution; a fault; a defect. Many take pleasure in spreading
WEAKEN
1. To make weak; to lessen the strength of; to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; to enervate; as, to weaken the body or the mind; to weaken the hands of a magistrate; to weaken the force of an objection or an argument. Their hands
WEAKENER
One who, or that which, weakens. " weakeners of sin." South.