All 3 Uses of
infirm
in
Middlemarch
- Lydgate thought that there was a pitiable infirmity of will in Mr. Farebrother.†
Chpt 2 *
- He deferred the intention from day to day, his habit of acting on his conclusions being made infirm by his repugnance to every possible conclusion and its consequent act.†
Chpt 7
- Through all his bodily infirmity there ran a tenacious nerve of ambitious self-preserving will, which had continually leaped out like a flame, scattering all doctrinal fears, and which, even while he sat an object of compassion for the merciful, was beginning to stir and glow under his ashy paleness.†
Chpt 7
Definition:
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(infirm) weak from old age or disease