"enervating" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, Grave of the Mother of Washington, page 10:",
          "text": "No enervating arts refined\nTo slumber lull'd his heaven-born might;\nNo weak indulgence warp'd thy mind,\nTo cloud a hero's path of light.",
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          "ref": "1828, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter XX, in Pelham; or, The Adventures of a Gentleman. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 196:",
          "text": "I rose by candle-light, and consumed, in the intensest application, the hours which every other individual of our party wasted in enervating slumbers, from the hesternal dissipation or debauch.",
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          "text": "Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.",
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