frailty

IPA: frˈeɪɫti

noun

  • (uncountable) The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally; weakness of resolution; liability to be deceived.
  • A fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of infirmity.
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Examples of "frailty" in Sentences

  • If WOMAN be the weaker creature, her frailty should be the more readily forgiven.
  • Behold, therefore, O Lord, my humility and my frailty, which is altogether known to Thee.
  • The final proof that he was human and his name frailty lies in the fact that he was a busybody.
  • Don't turn your head away, your peculiar modesty would hide what you call frailty and what I call love.
  • There is a vast difference between recognising our frailty which is a fact, and insisting that our nature is made up of nothing else, which is not a fact.
  • Sitting down to the dressing-table, she looked long and earnestly at her face; the rest she had taken had plumped and coloured it again, but there was a something, a kind of frailty, a blue darkness under the eyes.
  • He usually wore, in compliment to his nursing duties, an apron in front; but, as his various avocations pressed hard upon his time, and as his own personal outfit was ever the last to be attended to, Tiff's nether garments had shown traces of that frailty which is incident to all human things.
  • Recent studies had suggested that these children possessed a kind of frailty, that their genetic vulnerability meant that certain triggers during early childhood development could cause irrevocable harm and lead them to certain ‘inevitable’ fates like a life of depression and anti-social behaviors.
  • Her red, curving mouth of a child, cleft chin, and dimpled, tapering hands all promised a certain yieldingness of disposition -- a tendency to take always the line of least resistance -- but it was a charming, appealing kind of frailty which most people -- the sterner sex, certainly -- would be very ready to condone.

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