Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Firmness; strength.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Strength; firmness; stability.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
strength ;firmness ;stability
Etymologies
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Examples
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If I could choose just one word to describe the mental firmity of these people, that single word would be: not well.
The Best Sports Car, and Why to Skip It Dan Neil 2011
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I don't mean to imply that the book is flighty; no, it is grounded in the heavy firmity of New York City, to which it is, indeed, a love song, and so it seems appropriate to end with a measure from that song, one among many:
Spaceman Blues 2007
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I don't mean to imply that the book is flighty; no, it is grounded in the heavy firmity of New York City, to which it is, indeed, a love song, and so it seems appropriate to end with a measure from that song, one among many:
Archive 2007-06-01 2007
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"God be merciful to the speaker," cries the stern prophet, "for we fear he shall have experience that the building of his ain house, the house of God being despised, shall not be so prosperous or of such firmity as we desire it were" -- so dangerous was it to jest in the presence of one so tremendously in earnest.
Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets George Reid 1862
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If anything is bothering him it is his Achilles tendon - which is said to still give him gyp every morning - though there is more to it than a player worrying about the firmity of his body.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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If anything is bothering him it is his Achilles tendon - which is said to still give him gyp every morning - though there is more to it than a player worrying about the firmity of his body.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Kati Marton Recalls Parents 'Arrest in Communist Hungary israeli diplomate expels for Netanyahu firmity in washington ...
WN.com - Articles related to The US-Israeli dispute is more comedy than reality 2010
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If anything is bothering him it is his Achilles tendon - which is said to still give him gyp every morning - though there is more to it than a player worrying about the firmity of his body.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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If anything is bothering him it is his Achilles tendon - which is said to still give him gyp every morning - though there is more to it than a player worrying about the firmity of his body.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Chap. 113. 75 firmity or otherwise, incapable of discharging the duties of his office.
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