Eksempler på infirmity

• It is based on health and leisure rather than infirmity and poverty.

• According to this interpretation, the aged ordinarily resided with their adult children only out of necessity, especially in cases of poverty or infirmity.

• Those in ' deepest poverty ', such as orphans, widows and those rendered unable to work through infirmity and age, were to receive unconditional support.

• Most interesting, however, are the effects of physical infirmity and political ambition.

• When her husband became ill and had to go into the infirmary she asked for support on grounds of age and infirmity.

• For most, infirmity was a new experience, known for the first time in old age.

• The connection between fault and infirmity may be interpreted in a purely mechanistic or unconscious physiological sense, but introduces an inherent social devaluation.

• Those unable to work because of illness or infirmity congregated there and there was little distinction between the sane and insane.