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- adjective
comparative form ofinfirm : moreinfirm
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Examples
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I was really affected with a melancholy sort of pleasure in contemplating it in the persons of the amiable old ladies who are among the last of its living representatives; nor could I witness without lively sympathy the unremitting, natural and affectionate attention with which the younger treated her somewhat infirmer friend, and anticipated all her wants.
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The same reasons hold good still and the rather, as I am now both elder and infirmer, and I am afraid more desperately so, then I beleevd my self to be at that time.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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I saw and heard nothing else than these two Ladies: and some old Nurseys at St. John's Wood: and dear Donne, who was infirmer than when I had seen him before, and, I hear, is infirmer still than when
Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II Edward FitzGerald 1846
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His judgment alone lacks weight and substance, -- ever persuaded against his better reason by those who approach his infirmer side; but if it be true that our cousin
The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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People of infirmer resolution would have lingered at the supper table, for the sake of putting off the evil moment of final crisis.
Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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People of infirmer resolution would have lingered at the supper table, for the sake of putting off the evil moment of final crisis.
Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers Thomas De Quincey 1822
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The worst that they could say in reproach and scorn of the gods of the heathen was, that perchance they were asleep; but gods that are so sick as that they cannot sleep are in an infirmer condition.
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel John Donne 1601
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This 'nave' was probably open to the chapel, as the large size of the western arch of the latter seems to indicate, and possibly the infirmer inmates could attend the service without leaving their beds. [
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Cecil Walter Charles Hallett
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His judgment alone lacks weight and substance, -- ever persuaded against his better reason by those who approach his infirmer side; but if it be true that our cousin Warwick intends for him the hand of the peerless Isabel, wiser heads will guide his course. "
The Last of the Barons — Volume 04 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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