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Meanings of infirmity in English
The state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)
Synonyms
Examples for "frailty"
Examples for "frailty"
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Background: It has not been clarified whether physical frailty symptoms predict social.
2
Parametric frailty models were used to assess risk factors of HPV incidence.
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Indeed, they were proposed as a marker for central nervous system frailty.
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Methods: We conducted a literature review to identify predictive factors of frailty.
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Under different circumstances, cognitive frailty may represent a precursor of neurodegenerative processes.
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Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness.
2
No doubt the feebleness of the disciples was remembered in His petitions.
3
Even when the feebleness and impotence of the successors of Ramses III.
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There was not the slightest trace of feebleness in his impassioned tones.
5
I found him entirely himself, though in the last extreme of feebleness.
1
Excellent in obstructions of the monthly periods, debility, loss of appetite, etc.
2
A valuable tonic in all conditions of debility and want of appetite.
3
Severe work, debility and the character of the ration influence their frequency.
4
As it happened, this debility was a blessing in disguise for him.
5
Every year counts by increased debility, and departing faculties keep the score.
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This gives one a realizing sense of the frailness of a
2
The sense of her motion, of her frailness, lingered in his soul ever afterwards.
3
He was thin even to seeming frailness,-yetit was the frailness of the race-horse.
4
She wore a massive crown which seemed too heavy for her frailness to sustain.
5
She had noticed the transparency of the delicate flesh, the frailness of the wrinkled hands.
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He was tormented by presentiments of misfortune; he indulged a kind of romantic valetudinarianism.
2
So, too, the valetudinarianism of Mr. Wood-house, like that of Smollett's Bramble, is something strained; so is Lady de Bourgh's pride and General Tilney's tyranny.
Usage of infirmity in English
1
But physical infirmity and a collapsing economy mean his grip is weakening.
2
The slaughter now became general, and neither age nor infirmity was spared.
3
Of confession of our infirmity and of the miseries of this life
4
It was the inevitable tragedy, this, of their sexes and her infirmity.
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And then our Lord relieves the blind man of the infirmity itself.
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Penelope's infirmity provided an excuse but an excuse was all it was.
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She keenly felt the sadness and danger consequent on this cruel infirmity.
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To bear with the infirmity of a brother is a good thing.
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At the mention of her infirmity a cloud covered her young face.
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But the working of miracles belongs to power rather than to infirmity.
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Wetting the bed is an infirmity with some children-theycannot help it.
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I speak an human thing, because of the infirmity of your flesh.
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N infirmity becomes doubly burdensome when we give it a false interpretation.
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The claim dies from the moment that your daughter's infirmity is removed.
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I love you, but I cannot be your wife with my infirmity.
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I wish I had had a knowledge beforehand of the captain's infirmity.
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