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inˈfirmness Now rare. [f. as prec. + -ness.] The quality of being infirm (in various senses); weakness, feebleness, frailty, infirmity.
1602Warner Alb. Eng. xii. lxxv. (1612) 313 A Friend should not, nor you will I, in this Infirmnes flye. 1655Oughtred in Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men (1841) I. 87 So far as..the infirmness of my healh, and the greatness of my age..would permit. 1663Boyle Exp. Hist. Colours i. v. Wks. 1772 I. 695 The infirmness and insufficiency of the common peripatetick doctrine. 1680Lond. Gaz. No. 1485/4 On account of his infirmness of Body. |