Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Want of exertion; defect of effort or action.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Lack of exertion; lack of effort; defect of action; indolence; laziness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Lack of
exertion oreffort ;indolence ;laziness .
Etymologies
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in- + exertion
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Examples
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When any cause occurs, which diminishes to a certain degree the supply of sensorial power in respect to the whole system; as suppose a temporary inexertion of the brain; what happens?
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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I replied, "Such disclosures and revelation are not granted from heaven; since in proportion as a man knows things to come, in the same proportion his reason and understanding, together with his wisdom and prudence, fall into an indolence of inexertion, grow torpid, and decay."
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love Emanuel Swedenborg 1730
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