INFIRMITY, noun inferm'ity. [Latin infirmitas.] 1. An unsound or unhealthy state of the body; weakness; feebleness. Old age is subject to infirmities. 2. Weakness of mind; failing; fault; foible. A friend should bear a friend's infirmities. 3. Weakness of resolution. 4. Any particular disease; malady; applied rather to chronic, than to violent diseases. 5. Defect; imperfection; weakness; as the infirmities of a constitution of government.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI