firmity

English

Etymology 1

Latin firmitas.

Noun

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

Noun

firmity (uncountable)

Obsolete form of frumenty.

References

“firmity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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