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Webster 1913 Edition
Infirmity
1.
The state of being infirm; feebleness; an imperfection or weakness; esp., an unsound, unhealthy, or debilitated state; a disease; a malady;
as,
. infirmity
of body or mind’T is the
infirmity
of his age. Shakespeare
2.
A personal frailty or failing; foible; eccentricity; a weakness or defect.
Will you be cured of your
infirmity
? Shakespeare
A friend should bear his friend's
infirmities
. Shakespeare
Syn. – Debility; imbecility; weakness; feebleness; failing; foible; defect; disease; malady. See
Debility
. Webster 1828 Edition
Infirmity
INFIRMITY
,Noun.
1.
An unsound or unhealthy state of the body; weakness; feebleness. Old age is subject to infirmities.2.
Weakness of mind; failing; fault; foible. A friend should bear a friend's infirmities.
3.
Weakness of resolution.4.
Any particular disease; malady; applied rather to chronic, than to violent diseases.5.
Defect; imperfection; weakness; as the infirmities of a constitution of government.Definition 2024
infirmity
infirmity
English
Noun
infirmity (plural infirmities)
- feebleness, frailty or ailment, especially due to old age.
- a moral weakness or defect
Related terms
- infirm adj
Translations
feebleness
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