† firmituden.
Obsolete.
The quality or state of being firm, in the various senses of the adjective; firmness, solidity, stability, strength; stability of purpose, resolution.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > decision > resolution or determination > [noun]
willOE
businessa1387
wilfulnessc1386
restc1400
point1477
appointmenta1535
firmitude?1541
resoluteness?1560
resolve1592
resolution1594
constancy1603
resolvance1603
resolvedness1611
intensiona1619
determinateness1652
decisiveness1714
determinedness1747
decision1770
decidedness1800
setness1818
determinativeness1821
determination1822
virtu1876
the courage of one's convictions or opinions1878
self-determination1890
adamancy1898
drivenness1902
adamance1925
the mind > will > decision > constancy or steadfastness > [noun]
steadfastnessa1000
anrednessOE
stead-stathelfastness?c1225
stability13..
steadfastshipc1320
traistnessa1340
constance1340
sadnessc1384
unmovablenessc1384
hardnessa1400
steadfastheadc1400
unmobletya1425
firmitya1450
constancy1526
constantness1530
firmitude?1541
firmness1553
stoutness1561
settledness1571
cleaving1580
solidity1607
immovableness1617
staunchness1623
fixedness1626
fixationa1631
unswayednessa1656
steadiness1663
sturdiness1675
unbendingness1824
indomitability1851
indomitableness1860
thick and thin1884
fixity1885
unshakability1907
the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily strength > [noun]
mighteOE
avelOE
mainOE
strengthOE
strengthOE
virtuec1330
forcea1375
birr1382
valure1440
firmitude?1541
thews1566
iron1695
invalescence1755
physicals1824
beef1851
the world > movement > absence of movement > [noun] > stability > condition of being firmly fixed
fastnesseOE
firmitya1450
stablishness1530
firmitude?1541
steadfastnessa1542
firmness1600
fixure1603
security1770
fixation1894
the world > matter > constitution of matter > hardness > types of hardness > [noun] > firmness
stathelnessOE
sadnessa1398
firmitude?1541
firmness1653
?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Ej, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens They do vse these names, Dyspathies, Metasyncrises, Imbecyllitees, fyrmytudes [L. firmitudines], and sondry other such names.
1579 T. Twyne tr. Petrarch Phisicke against Fortune ii. cxiv. 308 a Vnlesse the minde..had put on the same firmitude and constancie agaynst it [the payne].
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1340 The stability and stedy firmitude of those broad flat faces which it [the cube] hath.
1668 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) i. §4. 10 So great a firmitude is there in Life against all the subtle attaques of shifting Reason.
1701 W. Nicholls Treat. Consol. Parents 112 What great Firmitude of Mind they have to oppose against such a cutting misfortune.
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