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Definition of Infirmest
1. infirm [adj] - See also: infirm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Infirmest
Literary usage of Infirmest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Amenities of Literature: Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English by Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (1864)
"... they were not, however, slightly tinged by an over-refining pedantry at the
cost of his taste; and, as his judgment was the infirmest of his faculties, ..."
2. Amenities of Literature, Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English by Isaac Disraeli (1842)
"... they were not however slightly tinged by an over-refining pedantry, at the
cost of his taste ; and as his judgment was the infirmest of his faculties, ..."
3. The People's Bible: Discourses Upon Holy Scripture by Joseph Parker (1889)
"Then infirmest men have a place in human education, unfortunate lives have
something to say to us, unsuccessful baffled men may come and claim to speak to ..."
4. The Statesmen of the Commonwealth of England: With a Treatise on the Popular by John Forster (1846)
"And we have it in the infirmest of her daughters, pity, which is the t «nd e
reft "f all thoughts, yet that subdues this fear, ..."
5. Passages from the Life and Writings of William Penn by Thomas Pym Cope (1882)
"... "many inquisitive men into human affairs have thought that the concord of
discords hath not been the infirmest basis government can stand upon. ..."
6. Crito, Or, A Dialogue on Beauty by Joseph Spence, Edmund Goldsmid (1885)
"In a few Minutes, the old Witch, who presides over his infirmest Days, falls to
tormenting him afresh, and winds him up again in his destined Confinement. ..."
7. Edwin of Deira by Alexander Smith (1861)
"The clear sweet voices and the gleam of white Drew mothers forth that held their
babes to breast, And tottering children, and infirmest men ..."
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