firmity
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
firmity (uncountable)
- (obsolete) strength; firmness; stability
- 1586, William Perkins, A right godly and learned exposition, vpon the whole booke of Psalmes:
- the firmity and ſledfaſtnes of the Church
- 1637, William Chillingworth, The Religion of Protestants:
- the strength and firmity of my assent must rise and fall together with the apparent credibility of the object
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
firmity (uncountable)
References[edit]
- “firmity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.