infirmness

Or maybe, said 27-year-old grandson Luke Erickson, it shows the possibility that age doesn’t mean infirmness or discontent, but that two spectacularly unself-conscious people eight decades on are capable of happiness and supporting and loving each other.

He had been marking the windings of creeks, observing where there were bridges and where there were none, the depth of channels and the infirmness of marshes.

He walked with a new, just noticeable, infirmness toward the door.