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countable and uncountable, plural frigidities
The state of being frigid; coldness; lack of heat. examples
Coldness of feeling, manner or quality; lack of ardor, animation or vivacity. examples
Lack of natural heat and vigor of body; impotency. quotations examples
It cannot be denied it [the chameleon] is (if not the moſt of any) a very abſtemious animall, and ſuch as by reaſon of its frigidity, paucity of bloud, and latitancy in the winter (about which time the obſervations are often made) will long ſubſist without a viſible ſuſtentation.
1650, Thomas Browne, “Of the Cameleon”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], 3rd book, page 133