Asked by berlanda

Read the passage, then answer the question. In this excerpt, a character is reading from a slip of paper.

“Missing,” it said, “on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height . . . tinted glasses, slight infirmity of speech.”

–“A Case of Identity,”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Which term best defines the underlined word?

action of weakening
result of being weak
gradually weakening
quality of being weak

All Answers 1

Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
"Quality of being weak."

(infirmity = weakness or frailty)