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Meanings of infirm in English
Usage of infirm in English
1
There is a moral issue involved in refusing care to the infirm.
2
The camp was deserted of all except the infirm and very aged.
3
Therefore are there many infirm and weak among you: and many sleep.
4
The mind is too infirm to be entirely occupied with higher knowledge.
5
Aged and infirm as Opechancanough was, the wound was not instantly mortal.
6
All old and infirm people and also strangers were exempted from taxation.
7
Second, the only support of an aged or infirm spinster or bachelor.
8
Next came more Blackguards, helping infirm drafters or wheeling them in chairs.
9
There are few old and infirm persons who have not living relatives.
10
The third, very old and very infirm, had not a better fate.
11
Sucklers, old, infirm and pregnant receive the same allowances as full-work hands.
12
We support neither old nor young, diseased nor infirm-thatis the truth.
13
Nor did she feel tired any more, infirm of will and spent.
14
Mrs. Sprague had been too infirm to see her when she called.
15
For Cynthy Ann had tied her conscience to her rather infirm logic.
16
He was, as I have just told you, very old and infirm.
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Infirm through the time
Infirm across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common