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feebleminded

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Adj.1.feebleminded - retarded in intellectual development
half-witted, slow-witted, backward
archaicism, archaism - the use of an archaic expression
retarded - relatively slow in mental or emotional or physical development; "providing a secure and sometimes happy life for the retarded"
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That decision, which upheld the forced sterilization of "a feebleminded white woman" identified as "the probable potential parent of socially inadequate offspring," included Holmes' often-quoted declaration that "three generations of imbeciles are enough.
Tyranny of the minority: James MacGregor Burns' biased and cartoonish ... by Root, Damon W. / Reason
During the 1800s, the indigent, insane and feebleminded of all ages were restrained in prisons, asylums, almshouses, orphanages and reformatories.
Dorothea Lynde Dix; Advocate and crusader for the mentally ill by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
There was also a "particularly criminalistic subgroup of the feebleminded, moral imbeciles, whose intellectual defects can be discerned only by experts.
Criminal madness: cultural iconography and insanity by Covey, Russell D. / Stanford Law Review
 
 
 
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