infirmnessn.
Now rare.
The quality of being infirm (in various senses); weakness, feebleness, frailty, infirmity.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] > weakness
faintise1297
weaknessa1300
faintc1320
feebleness1340
languishingc1384
lamea1400
unferea1400
unferenessa1400
unwielda1400
impotence1406
imbecility?a1425
languisha1425
languoringa1438
unwieldness1437
faintnessa1440
impotency1440
infirmityc1440
debility1484
unlustiness1486
resolution1547
unwieldiness1575
languishment1576
infirmness1596
weakness1603
prostrationa1626
exolution1634
languidness1634
prosternation1650
faintingnessa1661
debilitude1669
flaccidity1676
atony1693
puniness1727
faintishness1733
adynamia1743
asthenia1802
adynamy1817
weakliness1826
tonelessness1873
atonicity1900
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > unreliability > [noun] > weakness, instability
ticklenessc1390
infirmness1596
precariousness1666
weakness1686
shakiness1862
ricketiness1867
rockiness1897
wonkiness1982
1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) xii. lxxvii. 315 A Friend should not (nor you will I in this Infirmnes) flye.
1655 W. Oughtred Let. in S. P. Rigaud & S. J. Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men 17th Cent. (1841) (modernized text) I. 87 So far as..the infirmness of my healh, and the greatness of my age..would permit.
1664 R. Boyle Exper. & Considerations Colours i. v. 89 The Infirmness and Insufficiency..of the common Peripatetick Doctrine.
1680 London Gaz. No. 1485/4 On account of his infirmness of Body.
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