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Moral Imbeciles

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Impotence

The quality or condition of being impotent lack of strength or power animal intellectual or moral weakness feebleness inability imbecility … quality or condition of being impotent lack of strength or power animal intellectual or moral weakness feebleness inability imbecility

Incapable

One who is morally or mentally weak or inefficient an imbecile a simpleton … One who is morally or mentally weak or inefficient an imbecile a simpleton

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Idiot

For Coke's classification of persons of unsound mind, see Co. Litt. 247 a. Idiots, imbeciles, feeble-minded persons, and moral defectives constitute the four kinds of persons define as 'mentally defective' by the (English) Mental Deficiency Act, 1927

Person of unsound mind

a mental illness affecting their reason are to be known, as distinguished from Idiots, Imbeciles, Feeble-minded Persons and Moral Defectives under the Mental Deficiency Act, 1927 (17 & 18Geo. 5, c. 33) (see those titles, and LUNATICS).

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