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What is the noun for infirmness?

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infirmary
  1. A place where sick or injured people are cared for, especially a small hospital; sickhouse.
  2. A clinic or dispensary within another institution.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Even those who have access to an infirmary or clinic may visit herbalists or other healers.”
      “One of the founders, and the first surgeon to the infirmary, was Charles White.”
      “The Spedale di Santa Maria della Scala is a well-endowed hostel and infirmary in Siena.”
infirmity
  1. feebleness, frailty or ailment, especially due to old age.
  2. a moral weakness or defect
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  4. Examples:
    1. “In spite of his age and infirmity, he is still producing plays.”
      “The claimant's interpretation gives the clause a more tautological aspect in as much as it would have the tendency to treat the condition and the physical infirmity or illness as the same thing.”
      “The woman's infirmity was evident in her slow movements and hunched posture, showing the clear signs of age-related frailty.”
infirmaress
  1. A female infirmarer; a woman in charge of an infirmary, especially in a medieval monastery.
infirmarer
  1. (archaic, historical) One who took care of the sick, especially in a medieval monastery or nunnery; physician.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The infirmarer was allowed to speak to the inmates of the infirmary, but was to do so quietly and in designated areas.”
      “The prior, or he who holds his power, if the sickness of the brother requires immediate assistance, shall tell the infirmarer.”
infirmness
infirmatory
  1. (obsolete) An infirmary.
infirmaresses
  1. plural of infirmaress
infirmatories
  1. plural of infirmatory
infirmarers
  1. plural of infirmarer
infirmities
  1. plural of infirmity
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Through its melancholic denial of the infirmities of age, this story affirms the possibility of making reparations for the past.”
      “However, not only the martyrs but also the confessors bore their tribulations and infirmities with great patience, and have to this day.”
      “Its misfortunes, its infirmities, its innocences were counted to it as sins.”
infirmaries
  1. plural of infirmary
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Nuns also provided cheap personnel for preschools, infirmaries, sanitariums, asylums, soup kitchens, and orphanages, especially in the North.”
      “In 1865 a medical magazine set up a special commission to inquire into London workhouse infirmaries.”
      “Some of the wounded were taken to small infirmaries nearby or to local residents' homes.”
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