firmity

English

Etymology 1

Latin firmitas.

Noun

firmity (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) strength; firmness; stability
    • 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

Noun

firmity (uncountable)

  1. Obsolete form of frumenty.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for firmity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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