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Frailty

//ˈfɹeɪlti// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally; weakness of resolution; liability to be deceived. uncountable

    "the limitations and restraints of civil government, and a legal constitution, may be defended, either from reason, which reflecting on the great frailty and corruption of human nature, teaches, that no man can safely be trusted with unlimited authority ;"

  2. 2
    moral weakness wordnet
  3. 3
    A fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of infirmity. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age) wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English frelete, frailte, from Old French fraileté, from Latin fragilitās. By surface analysis, frail + -ty. Doublet of fragility.

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