infirmness
English
Etymology
infirm + -ness
Noun
infirmness (uncountable)
- The quality of being infirm; feebleness.
- 1664, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours
- For both which purposes I thought it requisite to do these two things ; the one , to set down some experiments , which by the help of the reflections and insinuations that attend them , may assist you to discover the infirmness and insufficiency both of the common Peripatetic doctrine, and of the now more applauded theory of the chymists about colour
- 1664, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for infirmness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)