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infirmity | American Dictionary

infirmity
noun[ C/U ]
us/ɪnˈfɜr·mɪ·t̬i/
(a) physical or mental weakness

Examples of infirmity

infirmity
It is based on health and leisure rather than infirmity and poverty.
According to this interpretation, the aged ordinarily resided with their adult children only out of necessity, especially in cases of poverty or infirmity.
Those in ' deepest poverty ', such as orphans, widows and those rendered unable to work through infirmity and age, were to receive unconditional support.
Most interesting, however, are the effects of physical infirmity and political ambition.
When her husband became ill and had to go into the infirmary she asked for support on grounds of age and infirmity.
For most, infirmity was a new experience, known for the first time in old age.
The connection between fault and infirmity may be interpreted in a purely mechanistic or unconscious physiological sense, but introduces an inherent social devaluation.
Those unable to work because of illness or infirmity congregated there and there was little distinction between the sane and insane.
We distinguish between chronic and catastrophic infirmities based on the severity of an infirm justice's ailments in a given year.
The answer gives three causes for such an emission: gluttony, an excess of natural humours or infirmity, and a disturbance of thoughts.
It did not end until complete infirmity had been reached, and complete infirmity was not expected to arrive until quite late in life.
Fewer children want to be care providers - or expect the state to care for them in the infirmities of their old age.
To assess the level of consistency with which we coded infirmity and our remaining variables, we conducted a reliability analysis of 12 randomly selected judges.
To what extent does explanation of the oratorio turn as resulting from bodily infirmity meet the three tests?
It's very detrimental to steer a characterization in the direction of infirmity.
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