noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
mental
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Steps are often taken to minimise risk where mental infirmity makes old people unreliable in their behaviour.
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Indeed, extensive neglect is likely to be a reflection of mental infirmity of one kind or another.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Each may provide assistance in times of infirmity or sickness or in the provision of baby-sitting or other services.
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Even then, in her secret years of infirmity , Euphemia Bawn preferred to make good with the saints.
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He encouraged me to talk, and I did-talked about the last few years and Lou Minton and my own imagined infirmity .
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I suspect this is true for the majority of people: to accept help because of infirmity may seem an admission of defeat.
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In spite of his many infirmities, his wit and gift for storytelling were intact.
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Indeed, extensive neglect is likely to be a reflection of mental infirmity of one kind or another.
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She never ignored him, or let him languish in his infirmities.
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Steps are often taken to minimise risk where mental infirmity makes old people unreliable in their behaviour.