firmity

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English

Etymology 1

Latin firmitas.

Noun

firmity (uncountable)

  1. (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

Noun

firmity (uncountable)

  1. Obsolete form of frumenty.

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