Definition for IN-FIRM'I-TY

IN-FIRM'I-TY, n. [infermity; Fr. infirmité; L. infirmitas.]

  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. – Shak.
  3. Weakness of resolution.
  4. Any particular disease; malady; applied rather to chronic, than to violent diseases. – Hooker.
  5. Defect; imperfection; weakness; as, the infirmities of a constitution of government. – Hamilton.

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