infirmity
IPA: ɪnfˈɝmɪti
noun
- feebleness, frailty or ailment, especially due to old age.
- a moral weakness or defect
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Examples of "infirmity" in Sentences
- If the Lord now calls me to a period of weakness, I know well that his power can be made perfect in infirmity.
- My infirmity was the principal cause which prevented me from mixing in polite companies, and enjoying the conversation of the fair.
- He who counts himself perfect, must deceive himself by calling sin infirmity (1Jo 1: 8); at the same time, each must aim at perfection, to be a Christian at all
- We can put our fingers on the two great evils of life as it now is: the first is poverty; and the second is infirmity, which is the accompaniment of increasing years.
- "Thou takest all advantages against me; old scores are called over, every infirmity is animadverted upon, and no sooner is a false step taken than I am beaten for it."
- And, yes, with age for some people comes infirmity, but that infirmity is based on individual factors and not on a physical absolute that, at a “pre-set” age, one is automatically old and unable to function.
- Some old people have lost all their teeth, and others have but few left; and this infirmity is the more considerable because the meat, not being well chewed, for want of teeth, is not well digested, which has as much influence as any thing upon the other decays of age.
- I was no longer morbid; I would not allow myself to feel that my infirmity was a bar to the enjoyment of life; yet, all the same, I dreaded society and shrank from the fresh conviction of inferiority I was certain to experience in going out with Harry, who was strongest where I was so weak.
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