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infirm
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- There was about it an evidence of great age and infirmity.†
*infirmity = weakness from old age or disease
- Their knees trembled with infirmity; their shoulders were bent double with decrepitude; their shrivelled skins rattled in the wind; their voices were low, tremulous and broken; their eyes glistened with the rheum of years; and their gray hairs streamed terribly in the tempest.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(infirm) weak from old age or disease
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) A comprehensive dictionary will have more specialized definitions of infirm.