Read full poem →What evil and infirm perversity
Had been at work with him to bring him back?
Dictionary Entry
To contradict, to provide proof that something is not.
In a Sentence
“The thought is that you see an episode of observation, experiment, or reasoning as confirming or infirming a hypothesis depending on whether your probability for it increases or decreases during the episode.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. infirmold infirmpersons infirmstate infirmhealth infirminfirm mentally
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Antonyms
Poetry examples for “infirm”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And shrinks from what will not occur,
Bequeathing with infirm derision
His ashes to the days that were,
Read full poem →A poor old slave, infirm and lame;
Great scars deformed his face;
Read full poem →None from its stock that vine can reave.
Fear not, then, thou child infirm,
There's no god dare wrong a worm;
Read full poem →He palters and steals;
Infirm, melancholy,
Jealous glancing around,
Read full poem →Call my thoughts false and my fancies quaint
And my style infirm and its figures faint,
All the critics say, and more blame yet,
Read full poem →I laugh with pity at the idle train.
Infirm of soul! who think'st to lift thy name
Upon the waxen wings of human fame,--
Read full poem →Because I do not hope to know again
The infirm glory of the positive hour
Because I do not think
Read full poem →--Hast thou then survived--
Mild Offspring of infirm humanity,
Meek Infant! among all forlornest things