Word Meanings - FIRMITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Strength; firmness; stability. Chillingworth.

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• STRENGTHFUL
  Abounding in strength; full of strength; strong. -- Strength"ful*ness, n. Florence my friend, in court my faction Not meanly strengthful. Marston.
• STRENGTHENING
  That strengthens; giving or increasing strength. -- Strength"en*ing*ly, adv. Strengthening plaster , a plaster containing iron, and supposed to have tonic effects.
• STRENGTHENER
  One who, or that which, gives or adds strength. Sir W. Temple.
• STRENGTH
  1. The quality or state of being strong; ability to do or to bear; capacity for exertion or endurance, whether physical, intellectual, or moral; force; vigor; power; as, strength of body or of the arm; strength of mind, of memory, or of judgment.
• STABILITY
  1. The state or quality of being stable, or firm; steadiness; firmness; strength to stand without being moved or overthrown; as, the stability of a structure; the stability of a throne or a constitution. 2. Steadiness or firmness of character,
• STRENGTHNER
  See STRENGTHENER
• STRENGTHY
  Having strength; strong.
• STRENGTHING
  A stronghold.
• STRENGTHLESS
  Destitute of strength. Boyle.
• STRENGTHEN
  1. To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; as, to strengthen a limb, a bridge, an army; to strengthen an obligation; to strengthen authority. Let noble Warwick, Cobham, and the rest, . . . With powerful policy strengthen themselves. Shak.
• FIRMNESS
  The state or quality of being firm. Syn. -- Firmness, Constancy. Firmness belongs to the will, and constancy to the affections and principles; the former prevents us from yielding, and the latter from fluctuating. Without firmness a man
• INFIRMNESS
  Infirmity; feebleness. Boyle.
• DETESTABILITY
  Capacity of being odious. Carlyle.
• INSTABILITY
  1. The quality or condition of being unstable; want of stability, firmness, or steadiness; liability to give way or to fail; insecurity; precariousness; as, the instability of a building. 2. Lack of determination of fixedness; inconstancy;
• AUTOSTABILITY
  Automatic stability; also, inherent stability. An aëroplane is inherently stable if it keeps in steady poise by virtue of its shape and proportions alone; it is automatically stable if it keeps in steady poise by means of self-operative mechanism.
• INCONTESTABILITY
  The quality or state of being incontestable.
• UNFIRMNESS
  Infirmness.
• RESTRENGTHEN
  To strengthen again; to fortify anew.
• UNSTRENGTH
  Want of strength; weakness; feebleness. Wyclif.