Citations:effeeblish

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 * 1608, A discourse upon the meanes of wel governing [...] Against Nicholas Machiavel, The Third Part, The Preface, page 143:
 * he seekes to maintaine Warre to effeeblish his Subiects
 * 1634, The Birth of mankynde, otherwyse named the womans booke, page 123:
 * But if after the labour the flowers issue more vehemently, and in greater aboundance then they should, to the great effeeblishing of the woman, and inducing of much languor and painfulnesse,