firmity

English

Etymology 1

Latin firmitas.

Noun

firmity (uncountable)

1. (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

Noun

firmity (uncountable)

1. Obsolete form of frumenty.

References

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