It would be as simple to grant anyone with health problems exemption from jury service as it would be to excuse judges who dread the risk that lifting the ban might get them sent back into the courts after retirement at 70.
fondle (third-person singular simple present fondles, present participle fondling, simple past and past participle fondled) 1  To touch or stroke lovingly. Mothers fondle their babies. 2  To grasp. The lovers fondled each other.
The act of affecting or acting upon; the state of being affected. 2. An attribute; a quality or property; a condition; a bodily state; as, figure, weight, etc. , are affections of bodies. An old and strange affection of the house. - Tennyson.