Both Uses of
infirm
in
A Prayer for Owen Meany
- The tallish boy, the notorious cemetery vandal, sprawled his legs into the center aisle, indifferently creating a hazard for the elderly, the infirm, and the unwary.†
p. 240.8 *infirm = weak from old age or disease
- She saw very old, infirm people with their mouths agape; although they were, at best, only partially alert, they gave their stuporous attention to images that my grandmother described as "too surpassing in banality to recall."†
p. 261.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(infirm) weak from old age or disease
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
A comprehensive dictionary will have more specialized definitions of infirm.