FRAGILITY

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility. Bacon.

2.
n.

Weakness; feebleness. An appearance of delicacy, and even of fragility, is almost essential to it [beauty]. Burke.

3.
n.

Liability to error and sin; frailty. [Obs.] The fragility and youthful folly of Qu. Fabius. Holland.


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