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    I thought the poor thing handled her infirmity with great courage—  (source)
    infirmity = illness
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    Queen Amberly, for example, began a program for training families to take care of their mentally and physically infirmed members.  (source)
    infirmed = ill
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    Pale and bruised, lean to the point of infirmity, he shambles toward the bed.  (source)
    infirmity = weakness
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    Sir Leigh Teabing had suffered from polio as a child and now wore leg braces and walked with crutches, but Langdon had found him such a lively and colorful man on his last visit that it hardly seemed an infirmity.  (source)
    infirmity = weakness
    standard suffix: When the suffix "-ity" is added to infirm, it means "the state of being infirm". This is the same pattern seen in words like equality, complexity, and possibility.
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    Then he struck a solemn pose, and intoned, Those strong in the faith know, that in the Lord's hands even the infirm vessel is put to right use.  (source)
    infirm = weak (or ill)
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    I was starting a rotation in pediatrics at the time—good luck, since children don't tend to hold the crippled responsible for their infirmities, as grown-ups do.†  (source)
    infirmities = weaknesses from old age or disease
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    Then the muscles began to work, began to writhe under the skin, the mouth began to tremble infirmly, the Adam's apple began to rise and fall.†  (source)
    infirmly = in a manner that is weak from old age or disease
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    It was a cunning move on the part of Douglas Posey, for excepting the chambermaids who clean and service the linens, and the butlers who attend our fireplaces and chimneys, these rooms and hallways go unoccupied-except when I am infirmed, of course, more often than not these days, but as it happens, not on this day when I felt quite well.†  (source)
    infirmed = weak from old age or disease
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    He had once been over six-three, but gravity and infirmity had sliced two inches off him.  (source)
    infirmity = old age or disease
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    As a nurse, I was in contact with the ill and the infirm.  (source)
    infirm = people lacking physical strength or vitality
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    As the months slipped by and his infirmities mounted, Marley taught us mostly about life's uncompromising finiteness.†  (source)
    infirmities = weaknesses from old age or disease
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    She repeated in a quavering treble, head rocking infirmly from side to side.†  (source)
    infirmly = in a manner that is weak from old age or disease
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    But he contracted a tuberculosis of the spine when he was about six, when his parents were up in Aswan —the nanny didn't recognize how serious it was, he was taken to the hospital too late—he was a very bright boy, so I understand, personable too, but old Mr. Blackwell wasn't a man tolerant of weakness or infirmity.†  (source)
    infirmity = weakness from old age or disease
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