confirmitiesとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Comical blend of confirm +‎ infirmity.

名詞

confirmities pl (複数形 only)

1. Shakespearean nonce word meant to be humorous rather than to make any sense.
   • 1596-99, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act 2, Scene 4

     By my troth, this is the old fashion; you two never meet but you fall to some discord: you are both, i' good truth, as rheumatic as two dry toasts; you cannot one bear with another's confirmities. What the good-year! one must bear, and that must be you: you are the weaker vessel, as as they say, the emptier vessel.