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is infirmity
noun
Feebleness, frailty or ailment, especially due to old age.
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It is infirmity.
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There's infirmity and illness, the closing down of life's options.
There is an infirmity in Marcel's nature to which the best are prone.
A reality of being a star at 82, though, is that infirmity and demise are often played out on screen.
The patients think it is an infirmity of old age, an age disease.
When calisthenics began after a 10-minute jog, one man appeared old enough to be nearing infirmity.
His huge personal charm and charisma, and his political genius, kept him on top throughout: the only force that could defeat him was the infirmity of old age.
"Alcoholism seems to be an infirmity of the lower classes," Mary observed, peering around the dining room, but Cheever's own gaze was humorous and fond.
The most commonly reported symptoms by the patients were weakness, infirmity and breathlessness during activity and pronounced tiredness, and these symptoms were also the most burdensome for the patients (mean ≥1.5, Table 3).
For public officials to capitalise on this fear of infirmity is both sinister and cruel.
He writes: "My infirmity is that I had no emotional memory (still don't — a dead love is never deader than with me).
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