infirmity - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • mind: He HAD the last infirmity of noble minds most profoundly.
  • nature: Was He subject to every infirmity of human nature, sin excepted?
  • flesh: Thirst, hunger and weariness are natural to the flesh, not infirmities of the flesh.

Converse of object

  • increase: Finally, with increasing age, also comes increasing infirmity.
  • give: I was given infirmity, that I might do better things.

Adjective modifier

  • mental: Many pious people thought him nearer to the kingdom than others who made sport of his mental infirmity.
  • human: It is too much to hope that the present work should be free from these defects, which are inseparable from human infirmity.
  • own: But he who anxiously contending with his own infirmity has recourse to faith, is already in a great measure victorious.
  • other: The candidates must be free from impediment of speech, or other infirmity.

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