All 3 Uses of
infirm
in
Jane Eyre
- mixed with the air I breathed; and besides, I remembered I had once been her husband — that recollection was then, and is now, inexpressibly odious to me; moreover, I knew that while she lived I could never be the husband of another and better wife; and, though five years my senior (her family and her father had lied to me even in the particular of her age), she was likely to live as long as I, being as robust in frame as she was infirm in mind.†
Chpt 27
- It was mournful, indeed, to witness the subjugation of that vigorous spirit to a corporeal infirmity.†
Chpt 37
- And to bear with my infirmities, Jane: to overlook my deficiencies.†
Chpt 37 *
Definition:
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(infirm) weak from old age or disease