Citations:enervate

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English citations of enervate

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  • 1721, Montesquieu, Persian letters 107
    You think that the arts enervate people, and are therefore the cause of the fall of empires. You speak of the fall of that of the ancient Persians, which was the result of their effeminacy
  • 1888, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Coming Race
    dark memory, resting upon his conscience, served to augment his superstition and enervate the vigour of his resolves