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countable and uncountable, plural firmnesses
The state of being firm
security; steadfastness; good grip examples
strictness; mental strength quotations examples
But many a man who would have stood within a home dismantled, strong in his passion and design of vengeance, has had the firmness of his nature conquered by the razing of an air–built castle.
1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter 23, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844
France, for the first time since the death of Charlemagne, was governed by a prince of great firmness and ability.
1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
physical durability; rigidness (of material) examples