Sentence examples for the infirmity from inspiring English sources

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the infirmity

noun

Feebleness, frailty or ailment, especially due to old age.

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The infirmity meant she couldn't go on an African safari as scheduled two days later.

Given the infirmity of a large proportion of pensioners, the system would have to travel to them.

The health market – or more bluntly, the infirmity market – is set to become a battleground, as companies compete to sell older customers mobility aids and the like.

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.

The infirmity is the nasty psychological law by which experience falls short of our expectations of it, the existence of a kind of barrier between perception and reality.

The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.

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He was very old, with all the infirmities of age.

Today, the infirmities of old age have not stopped Mr. Jones.

It's much the same explanation for Rosenthal, without the infirmities.

Of all the infirmities people dread in old age, dementia may be the scariest.

Dr. Guarente believes that inefficient silencing in cells could explain many of the infirmities of age.

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