Hypertext Webster Gateway: "frailties"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Frailty \Frail"ty\, n.; pl. {Frailties}. [OE. frelete, freilte,
OF. frailet['e], fr. L. fragilitas. See {Frail}, a., and cf.
{Fragility}.]
1. The condition quality of being frail, physically,
mentally, or morally, frailness; infirmity; weakness of
resolution; liableness to be deceived or seduced.

God knows our frailty, [and] pities our weakness.
--Locke.

2. A fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of
infirmity.

Syn: Frailness; fragility; imperfection; failing.


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