Supineness

Quick meaning: Supineness is a noun meaning The state of being supine.

Meaning

The state of being supine.

More Meanings

1. Total submissiveness; flat on one's back, lacking any backbone; with total abandon; prostrate; supine

Example Sentences

We have long wondered here at the Supineness of the English Nation, under the Prussian Impositions upon its Trade entering our Port.

I can safely appeal to the magistrates for the truth of these statements; knowing how deeply they lament that sinful supineness, which has occasioned such an increase of depravity. (p. 32)

She almost taunted Fleda with supineness in not getting something out of somebody—in the same breath indeed in which she drenched her with a kind of appreciation more onerous to the girl than blame.

In the first dejected state of his mind upon the loss of Ellina, the future had presented but a sterile waste; a tranquil but languid repose at best seemed to await him—a torpid existence, a miserable endurance of life, when the soul, susceptible of an aching void, resigns itself to the supineness of apathy.

Word Forms

• supinenesses

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