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Another word for infirmity

infirmity Synonyms

infirmity

n.

Weakness
frailty, deficiency, debility, feebleness; see frailty 1, weakness 1.
Illness
sickness, ailment, ailing, confinement; see illness 1.

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Another word for infirmity

noun

A pathological condition of mind or body:
ailment, complaint, disease, disorder, ill, illness, malady, sickness. See health
The condition of being infirm or physically weak:
debility, decrepitude, delicacy, delicateness, feebleness, flimsiness, fragileness, fragility, frailness, frailty, insubstantiality, puniness, unsoundness, unsubstantiality, weakliness, weakness. See strong
The condition of being sick:
affliction, disorder, illness, indisposition, sickness. See health
An imperfection of character:
failing, fault, foible, frailty, shortcoming, weakness, weak point. See better, help

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We therefore do him the injustice of mistaking his infirmity for perversity.
He lost some of his influence at first after the death of Wladislaus, but continued to be the guiding spirit at court, till age and infirmity confined him almost entirely to his house in the last three years of his life.
As age and infirmity were telling upon him, the estates in 1389 appointed his second surviving son Robert, earl of Fife, afterwards duke of Albany, guardian of the kingdom.
It was a noble end to what, in spite of its besetting sin of infirmity of moral purpose, was a not ignoble life.
Bodily infirmity, combined with mental aptitude, were eventually considered to indicate a theological vocation; he was, in 1584, placed at the seminary of Adelberg, and thence removed, two years later, to that of Maulbronn.

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