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English
Etymology
From Middle English febly; equivalent to feeble + -ly, euphonically blending -le and -ly due to difficulty of pronouncing -blely. Compare nimbly, nobly, and Latinate -ably and -ibly.
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Adverb
feebly (comparative more feebly, superlative most feebly)
- In a feeble manner.
1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, , →OCLC, part I, page 215:The hurt nigger moaned feebly somewhere nearby, and then fetched a deep sigh that made me mend my pace away from there.
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