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invalidity|ɪnvəˈlɪdɪtɪ|
[f. L. type *invaliditās, f. invalid-us invalid a.: cf. validity, and F. invalidité (16th c. in Littré).]
1. [Related to invalid a.1] The quality of being invalid; want of force or cogency; esp. want of legal validity.
c1550Life Fisher in F.'s Wks. (E.E.T.S.) II. p. lviii, By bringing in question the validitie or invaliditie of this maryage. 1586A. Day Eng. Secretary ii. (1625) 8 To advertise you of the.. invaliditie of your conjectures. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. v. 767 To shew the Invalidity of the Atheistick Argumentations, against an Incorporeal Deity. 1711Lond. Gaz. No. 4861/2 The Invalidity of their Passports. 1841Myers Cath. Th. iv. §19. 280 Suspicion of the invalidity of the evidence. 1884Ld. Blackburn in Law Rep. 9 App. Cases 553 It was quite unnecessary..to say anything about the validity or invalidity of a rule giving a borrowing power.
†2. Want of strength or efficacy; weakness, incapacity. Obs.
1589J. Proctor Ep. Ded. R. Robinson's Gold. Mirr. A ij b, The vnstablenesse and inualiditie of riches in comparison to vertue. 1659D. Pell Impr. Sea 485 All their helps have an invalidity in them. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 88 The ill managing of which Penalties formerly, or the Invalidity to inflict them, may [etc.].
3. a. [Related to invalid a.2] Want of bodily strength or health; condition of being an invalid; bodily infirmity.
a1698Temple (J.), He ordered..that none who could not work, by age, sickness, or invalidity, should want. 1755Johnson, Invalidity..2. Want of bodily strength. This is no English meaning. 1782S. Pegge Cur. Misc. 272 A Litter upon wheels..adapted both to State and invalidity among the higher orders. 1808Dr. Burney in Mad. D'Arblay's Diary & Lett. VI. 335 During my invalidity at Bath. 1813W. Taylor Eng. Synom. 292 Invalidity is a temporary infirmity, a constitutional deficiency of health or strength. 1891T. E. Young Germ. Law Insur. 18 Allowances for both invalidity and old age.
b. attrib.
1906Daily Chron. 18 Nov. 3 A State scheme of invalidity insurance would lead to the destruction of the successful voluntary system. 1907Ibid. 15 July 3/2 [Germany] The invalidity pensions go to all those of any age who are unfitted for relief. 1908Ibid. 16 June 5/7 There is a great deal to be said for the German invalidity scheme. 1969Daily Tel. 25 July 23 The new ‘invalidity pension’ will be introduced as part of the proposed earnings related retirement pension scheme..due to come into force in 1972. Ibid., The new invalidity pension is designed to take over after a person has been away from work through illness for more than 28 weeks. |