Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Firmness; strength; solidity.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Strength; stability.

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  • noun obsolete strength; stability

Etymologies

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Latin firmitudo. See firm.

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Examples

  • Wherefore, unto the firmitude and constancy which we have in the assurance of faith, three things do concur: --

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • When there is a radical firmitude and strength in a cause or design, it will work itself out through all changes and variations; but when the strength of any cause is but occasion, the first opposition and disorder will ruin us.

    A Treatise of the Dominion of Sin and Grace 1616-1683 1965

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