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Definition
weak from old age or disease
- When is a man to be safe from such wit, if age and infirmity will not protect him?Chapter 8 (37% in)
- "Infirmity!" said Elinor, "do you call Colonel Brandon infirm?Chapter 8 (38% in)
- "Infirmity!" said Elinor, "do you call Colonel Brandon infirm?Chapter 8 (39% in)
- Did not you hear him complain of the rheumatism? and is not that the commonest infirmity of declining life?Chapter 8 (42% in)
- But they learnt, on enquiry, that its possessor, an elderly lady of very good character, was unfortunately too infirm to mix with the world, and never stirred from home.Chapter 9 (15% in)
There are no more uses of "infirm" in Sense and Sensibility.
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