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Fragility
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility. Bacon.
2. Weakness; feebleness. An appearance of delicacy, and even of fragility, is almost essential to it [beauty]. Burke.
3. Liability to error and sin; frailty. [Obs.] The fragility and youthful folly of Qu. Fabius. Holland.