infirmityn.

/ɪnˈfəːmɪti/

Etymology: < Latin infirmitāt-em, noun of quality < infirmus infirm adj. (see -ity suffix). Compare French infirmité (15th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), earlier enfermeté.

The condition of being infirm.

a. Weakness or want of strength; lack of power to do something; inability. Also with plural an instance or case of this.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ability > inability > [noun]

unablenessc1380

unabletyc1380

infirmityc1384

unabilityc1475

non-ability1477

inability1500

disability1545

unsufficiency1580

disablement1597

disableness1609

incapacity1611

uncapableness1611

incapability1632

incapableness1632

uncapabilitya1644

incompatibility1659

incompetibilitya1660

uncapacity1681

invalidity1698

disable1827

the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > weakness of character or will

unmighteOE

frailnessa1300

infirmityc1384

debility1474

brittleness1493

brucklenessc1500

weak side1668

weakness1748

washiness1763

feebleness1809–10

enervation1849

weak-mindedness1854

feet of clay1859

will-lessness1865

bonelessness1869

molluscousness1870

limpness1873

backbonelessness1882

invertebracy1882

weak-kneedness1882

invertebrateness1884

spinelessness1920

gutlessness1936

the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily weakness > [noun]

wokenessc1000

unstrengthc1175

frailnessa1300

weaknessa1300

brotelhede1340

frailtyc1384

tendernessa1387

slackness1398

unmain?a1400

unmight?a1400

feebility1413

fragility1474

infirmity1590

strengthlessness1666

feebleness1684

akrasia1806

weediness1860

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Cor. xii. 5 For sich maner thing I schal glorie: forsothe for me no thing, no but in myn infirmitees.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Cor. xi. 30 I shal glorie in tho thingis that ben of myn infirmyte [gloss or freelte].

1447 O. Bokenham Lyvys Seyntys (1835) 6 I durst not hastyly assente hym to, Weel knowyng myn owyn infyrmyte.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. vii. sig. Ii5 Him he saw still stronger grow through strife, And him selfe weaker through infirmity.

1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 131 All Abortion is from Infirmity and Defect.

1796 E. Burke Let. to Noble Lord in Wks. (1815) VIII. 7 When I could no longer hurt them, the revolutionists have trampled on my infirmity.

1880 Mem. J. Legge 131 Weaker men feel the confidence that infirmity reposes in strength.

b. Of an argument or title: Want of validity.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > insecure knowledge, uncertainty > questionable state or quality > state of being unprovable > [noun] > lack of authority

infirmitya1631

unauthoritativeness1644

inauthoritativeness1659

unauthenticity1776

a1631 J. Donne Βιαθανατος (1647) Pref. What infirmity soever my reasons may have, yet I have comfort in Tresmegistus Axiome.

1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 203 Kings..knew no such infirmity in that manner of conveyance, as is pretended.

1888 Law Rep.: Appeal Cases 13 345 They had notice of the infirmity of the title of those from whom they claimed.

a. Physical weakness, debility, frailty, feebleness of body, resulting from some constitutional defect, disease, or (now mostly) old age.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] > weakness

faintise1297

weaknessa1300

faintc1320

feebleness1340

languishingc1384

lamea1400

unferea1400

unferenessa1400

unwielda1400

impotence1406

imbecility?a1425

languisha1425

languoringa1438

unwieldness1437

faintnessa1440

impotency1440

infirmityc1440

debility1484

unlustiness1486

resolution1547

unwieldiness1575

languishment1576

infirmness1596

weakness1603

prostrationa1626

exolution1634

languidness1634

prosternation1650

faintingnessa1661

debilitude1669

flaccidity1676

atony1693

puniness1727

faintishness1733

adynamia1743

asthenia1802

adynamy1817

weakliness1826

tonelessness1873

atonicity1900

c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) xi. 35 The lawe is I-sette for hem þat ben made blinde by infirmite, or by þe will of god.

c1480 (a1400) St. Bartholomew 20 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 180 Fulis trewit wele þat he þame heylyt of Infyrmyte.

1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xx. 244 The kyngis Infermite [1489 Adv. infirmyte] Woxe mair & mair.

?1507 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 94 I..Am trublit now with gret seiknes, And feblit with infermite.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. v. 72 Infirmity that decaies the wise, doth euer make the better foole.

1796 E. Burke Let. 27 Dec. in Corr. (1970) IX. 206 If infirmity had not the trick of assuring to itself strange privileges, and having them allowed by the good-nature of others.

1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Leila i. ii. 14 When age and infirmity broke the iron sceptre of the king.

1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiv. 305 To a tremor of age their gray infirmity rocking.

†b. Unhealthiness. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > insalubrity > [noun]

infirmity1481

unwholesomenessa1513

contagiousness1530

evilness1563

malignity1585

unhealthfulness1598

untemperaturea1604

unhealthsomeness1613

healthlessness1655

unsoundness1660

insalubrity1663

unhealthiness1666

unsalubrity1694

malignancy1732

pestilentiousness1748

mal-influence1792

insanitariness1881

insanitation1884

1481 W. Caxton tr. Siege & Conqueste Jerusalem (1893) 218 Thenne deuysed the barons that they wold remeue for thynfyrmyte of the place.

a. A special form or variety of bodily (or mental) weakness; †an illness, disease (obsolete); now, esp., a failing in one or other of the faculties or senses.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun]

soreOE

cothec1000

sicknessc1000

evilc1275

maladyc1275

grievance1377

passiona1382

infirmityc1384

mischiefa1387

affectiona1398

grievinga1398

grief1398

sicka1400

case?a1425

plaguec1425

diseasea1475

alteration1533

craze1534

uncome1538

impediment1542

affliction?1555

ailment1606

disaster1614

garget1615

morbus1630

ail1648

disaffect1683

disorder1690

illness1692

trouble1726

complaint1727

skookum1838

claim1898

itis1909

bug1918

wog1925

crud1932

bot1937

lurgy1947

Korean haemorrhagic fever1951

nadger1956

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Tim. v. 23 Use a litil wyn for thi stomak, and thin ofte falling infirmytees.

a1400–50 Alexander 5581 Slike a fell infirmite was in his hors bunden..þat he for bale dies.

c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) xx. 69 If I myght bathe in blode of goetis, I shuld be hole of this infirmite.

1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII c. 42 §3 The pestilence, great pockes & such other contagious infirmityes.

1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 84 If from the Liver or the Spleen, there are signs of their Infirmities.

1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 179 This gum is us'd..for several Infirmities of the Lungs.

1790 W. Cowper Wks. (1837) XV. 222 The voice of the Almighty can in one moment cure me of this mental infirmity.

1791 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 22/2 A gentleman, aged 50, who felt the infirmities of age at an earlier period than most do.

1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues II. 321 He is a little deaf and has a similar infirmity in sight.

†b. A noxious vegetative growth. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > valued plants and weeds > [noun] > weed

weedOE

bastard slipa1398

infirmity1597

noxious weed1621

hogweed1655

runchie1715

rogue1727

weedling1820

1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 22 The first groweth in gardens and arable grounds, as an infirmitie and plague of the fields.

1759 J. Mills tr. H. L. Duhamel du Monceau Pract. Treat. Husbandry i. viii. 25 Produce nothing but moss and cankerous infirmities.

a. Weakness of character; moral weakness or frailty; inability to maintain a high moral standard or to resist natural inclinations.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > [noun] > moral weakness

frailnessa1300

frailtya1340

infirmityc1384

fragility1495

the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > erring > errant conduct > [noun] > inclination to

frailnessa1300

frailtya1340

infirmityc1384

fragility1495

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Rom. viii. 26 The spirit helpith oure infirmyte, or vnstedefastnesse.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Rom. vi. 19 The infirmite, or vnstabilnesse, of ȝoure fleisch.

1414 T. Brampton Paraphr. Seven Penit. Psalms (1842) xxi. 9 I synne al day, for I am frele; It is mannys infirmyte.

1581 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha (1588) iv. xxi. 624 Erring by infirmitie they are not altogether unwoorthie of pardon.

1612 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. I. ii. v. 135 I see that forty dayes talk with God cannot bereaue a man of passionate infirmity.

1783 E. Burke Rep. Affairs India in Wks. (1842) II. 63 Some degree of ostentation is not extremely blamable. It is human infirmity at the worst.

1870 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 V. liii. 268 The head of the house..was a byword for infirmity of purpose.

b. With an and plural. A weakness, flaw, defect in a person's character.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > [noun] > state of having moral defects > moral defect

lackc1200

vice1338

default1340

fault1377

infirmity1382

wallet1528

flaw1586

failing1590

leak1597

delinquency1606

tare?1608

shortcominga1687

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Heb. iv. 15 We han not a byschop, that may not..haue compassioun to oure infirmytees.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Ciiii The whiche cureth, relyueth & heleth al defautes and spirituall infirmitees.

1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 22 in Justa Edouardo King Fame is the spurre that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmitie of noble mind).

1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull in his Senses iv. 22 I know the Infirmity of our Family; we are apt to play the Boon-Companion.

1871 R. W. Dale Ten Commandm. iii. 82 It is easy enough..to discover grave infirmities and faults in most Christian people.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	infirmity
释义	infirmityn. /ɪnˈfəːmɪti/ Etymology: < Latin infirmitāt-em, noun of quality < infirmus infirm adj. (see -ity suffix). Compare French infirmité (15th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), earlier enfermeté. The condition of being infirm. 1. a. Weakness or want of strength; lack of power to do something; inability. Also with plural an instance or case of this. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > [noun] unablenessc1380 unabletyc1380 infirmityc1384 unabilityc1475 non-ability1477 inability1500 disability1545 unsufficiency1580 disablement1597 disableness1609 incapacity1611 uncapableness1611 incapability1632 incapableness1632 uncapabilitya1644 incompatibility1659 incompetibilitya1660 uncapacity1681 invalidity1698 disable1827 the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > weakness of character or will unmighteOE frailnessa1300 infirmityc1384 debility1474 brittleness1493 brucklenessc1500 weak side1668 weakness1748 washiness1763 feebleness1809–10 enervation1849 weak-mindedness1854 feet of clay1859 will-lessness1865 bonelessness1869 molluscousness1870 limpness1873 backbonelessness1882 invertebracy1882 weak-kneedness1882 invertebrateness1884 spinelessness1920 gutlessness1936 the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily weakness > [noun] wokenessc1000 unstrengthc1175 frailnessa1300 weaknessa1300 brotelhede1340 frailtyc1384 tendernessa1387 slackness1398 unmain?a1400 unmight?a1400 feebility1413 fragility1474 infirmity1590 strengthlessness1666 feebleness1684 akrasia1806 weediness1860 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Cor. xii. 5 For sich maner thing I schal glorie: forsothe for me no thing, no but in myn infirmitees. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Cor. xi. 30 I shal glorie in tho thingis that ben of myn infirmyte [gloss or freelte]. 1447 O. Bokenham Lyvys Seyntys (1835) 6 I durst not hastyly assente hym to, Weel knowyng myn owyn infyrmyte. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. vii. sig. Ii5 Him he saw still stronger grow through strife, And him selfe weaker through infirmity. 1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 131 All Abortion is from Infirmity and Defect. 1796 E. Burke Let. to Noble Lord in Wks. (1815) VIII. 7 When I could no longer hurt them, the revolutionists have trampled on my infirmity. 1880 Mem. J. Legge 131 Weaker men feel the confidence that infirmity reposes in strength. b. Of an argument or title: Want of validity. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > insecure knowledge, uncertainty > questionable state or quality > state of being unprovable > [noun] > lack of authority infirmitya1631 unauthoritativeness1644 inauthoritativeness1659 unauthenticity1776 a1631 J. Donne Βιαθανατος (1647) Pref. What infirmity soever my reasons may have, yet I have comfort in Tresmegistus Axiome. 1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 203 Kings..knew no such infirmity in that manner of conveyance, as is pretended. 1888 Law Rep.: Appeal Cases 13 345 They had notice of the infirmity of the title of those from whom they claimed. 2. a. Physical weakness, debility, frailty, feebleness of body, resulting from some constitutional defect, disease, or (now mostly) old age. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] > weakness faintise1297 weaknessa1300 faintc1320 feebleness1340 languishingc1384 lamea1400 unferea1400 unferenessa1400 unwielda1400 impotence1406 imbecility?a1425 languisha1425 languoringa1438 unwieldness1437 faintnessa1440 impotency1440 infirmityc1440 debility1484 unlustiness1486 resolution1547 unwieldiness1575 languishment1576 infirmness1596 weakness1603 prostrationa1626 exolution1634 languidness1634 prosternation1650 faintingnessa1661 debilitude1669 flaccidity1676 atony1693 puniness1727 faintishness1733 adynamia1743 asthenia1802 adynamy1817 weakliness1826 tonelessness1873 atonicity1900 c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) xi. 35 The lawe is I-sette for hem þat ben made blinde by infirmite, or by þe will of god. c1480 (a1400) St. Bartholomew 20 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 180 Fulis trewit wele þat he þame heylyt of Infyrmyte. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xx. 244 The kyngis Infermite [1489 Adv. infirmyte] Woxe mair & mair. ?1507 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 94 I..Am trublit now with gret seiknes, And feblit with infermite. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. v. 72 Infirmity that decaies the wise, doth euer make the better foole. View more context for this quotation 1796 E. Burke Let. 27 Dec. in Corr. (1970) IX. 206 If infirmity had not the trick of assuring to itself strange privileges, and having them allowed by the good-nature of others. 1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Leila i. ii. 14 When age and infirmity broke the iron sceptre of the king. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiv. 305 To a tremor of age their gray infirmity rocking. †b. Unhealthiness. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > insalubrity > [noun] infirmity1481 unwholesomenessa1513 contagiousness1530 evilness1563 malignity1585 unhealthfulness1598 untemperaturea1604 unhealthsomeness1613 healthlessness1655 unsoundness1660 insalubrity1663 unhealthiness1666 unsalubrity1694 malignancy1732 pestilentiousness1748 mal-influence1792 insanitariness1881 insanitation1884 1481 W. Caxton tr. Siege & Conqueste Jerusalem (1893) 218 Thenne deuysed the barons that they wold remeue for thynfyrmyte of the place. 3. a. A special form or variety of bodily (or mental) weakness; †an illness, disease (obsolete); now, esp., a failing in one or other of the faculties or senses. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun] soreOE cothec1000 sicknessc1000 evilc1275 maladyc1275 grievance1377 passiona1382 infirmityc1384 mischiefa1387 affectiona1398 grievinga1398 grief1398 sicka1400 case?a1425 plaguec1425 diseasea1475 alteration1533 craze1534 uncome1538 impediment1542 affliction?1555 ailment1606 disaster1614 garget1615 morbus1630 ail1648 disaffect1683 disorder1690 illness1692 trouble1726 complaint1727 skookum1838 claim1898 itis1909 bug1918 wog1925 crud1932 bot1937 lurgy1947 Korean haemorrhagic fever1951 nadger1956 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Tim. v. 23 Use a litil wyn for thi stomak, and thin ofte falling infirmytees. a1400–50 Alexander 5581 Slike a fell infirmite was in his hors bunden..þat he for bale dies. c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) xx. 69 If I myght bathe in blode of goetis, I shuld be hole of this infirmite. 1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII c. 42 §3 The pestilence, great pockes & such other contagious infirmityes. 1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 84 If from the Liver or the Spleen, there are signs of their Infirmities. 1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 179 This gum is us'd..for several Infirmities of the Lungs. 1790 W. Cowper Wks. (1837) XV. 222 The voice of the Almighty can in one moment cure me of this mental infirmity. 1791 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 22/2 A gentleman, aged 50, who felt the infirmities of age at an earlier period than most do. 1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues II. 321 He is a little deaf and has a similar infirmity in sight. †b. A noxious vegetative growth. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > valued plants and weeds > [noun] > weed weedOE bastard slipa1398 infirmity1597 noxious weed1621 hogweed1655 runchie1715 rogue1727 weedling1820 1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 22 The first groweth in gardens and arable grounds, as an infirmitie and plague of the fields. 1759 J. Mills tr. H. L. Duhamel du Monceau Pract. Treat. Husbandry i. viii. 25 Produce nothing but moss and cankerous infirmities. 4. a. Weakness of character; moral weakness or frailty; inability to maintain a high moral standard or to resist natural inclinations. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > [noun] > moral weakness frailnessa1300 frailtya1340 infirmityc1384 fragility1495 the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > erring > errant conduct > [noun] > inclination to frailnessa1300 frailtya1340 infirmityc1384 fragility1495 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Rom. viii. 26 The spirit helpith oure infirmyte, or vnstedefastnesse. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Rom. vi. 19 The infirmite, or vnstabilnesse, of ȝoure fleisch. 1414 T. Brampton Paraphr. Seven Penit. Psalms (1842) xxi. 9 I synne al day, for I am frele; It is mannys infirmyte. 1581 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha (1588) iv. xxi. 624 Erring by infirmitie they are not altogether unwoorthie of pardon. 1612 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. I. ii. v. 135 I see that forty dayes talk with God cannot bereaue a man of passionate infirmity. 1783 E. Burke Rep. Affairs India in Wks. (1842) II. 63 Some degree of ostentation is not extremely blamable. It is human infirmity at the worst. 1870 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 V. liii. 268 The head of the house..was a byword for infirmity of purpose. b. With an and plural. A weakness, flaw, defect in a person's character. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > [noun] > state of having moral defects > moral defect lackc1200 vice1338 default1340 fault1377 infirmity1382 wallet1528 flaw1586 failing1590 leak1597 delinquency1606 tare?1608 shortcominga1687 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Heb. iv. 15 We han not a byschop, that may not..haue compassioun to oure infirmytees. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Ciiii The whiche cureth, relyueth & heleth al defautes and spirituall infirmitees. 1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 22 in Justa Edouardo King Fame is the spurre that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmitie of noble mind). 1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull in his Senses iv. 22 I know the Infirmity of our Family; we are apt to play the Boon-Companion. 1871 R. W. Dale Ten Commandm. iii. 82 It is easy enough..to discover grave infirmities and faults in most Christian people. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1382
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