Synonyms:
infirmity, frailty, debility, feebleness, frailness, valetudinarianism
Meaning: the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)
Usage examples
We must bear with their infirmity, till they shall be more fully instructed.
For, this infirmity you virtually deny, in refusing to employ the customary means for its relief.
Misery and infirmity are claims for admission to Thy Feast, but nothing can dispense from the nuptial garment.
Few men can think long without running into a confusion of ideas, and mistaking one for another; and there are various degrees of this infirmity.
You shall conquer, for my sake, this affectation which leads you, as you yourself acknowledge, to the tacit or implied denial of your infirmity of vision.
I did not ask her to tell me, nor did I ask myself, the reason of that change; and afterwards how often I noticed that same change in her, and in the others too--that sudden silence and clouding of the face, such as may be seen in one who freely expresses himself to a person who cannot hear, and then, all at once but too late, remembers the other's infirmity.