firmity
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.