infirmity 的定义
plural in·fir·mi·ties for 1, 3.
- a physical weakness or ailment: the infirmities of age.
- quality or state of being infirm; lack of strength.
- a moral weakness or failing.
infirmity 近义词
weakness, sickness
更多infirmity例句
- Page asked each candidate whether they had discussed the issue of age and infirmity with the presidential standard-bearers.
- Alma Hitchcock, the times I saw her, was a frail, birdlike woman who looked angry about her infirmity.
- The state law bars giving gun permits to people with a “physical infirmity that inhibits safe handling.”
- Whether infirmity or utter lack of enthusiasm is the reason remains unclear.
- Medical infirmity, a standard clause in most contracts like this, might have provided him a consequence-free out.
- There remain still the uncounted thousands who by accident or illness, age or infirmity, are unable to maintain themselves.
- If he declines, or shews the least infirmity of purpose, he will be drugged and taken home that way.
- Robin the gardener brought up the rear, his body all shaking with his infirmity, and showing the divine stigmata on his hands.
- Peter was not lame; but his father, by reason of that infirmity had received the nick-name which his son preserved.
- Woman's prescriptive infirmity had stalked into the sunlight, which had clothed it in the freshness of an originality.