Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Firmness; strength; solidity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Strength; stability.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
strength ;stability
Etymologies
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Latin firmitudo. See firm.
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Examples
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Wherefore, unto the firmitude and constancy which we have in the assurance of faith, three things do concur: --
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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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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