Meaning of FRAILTY
| Pronunciation: | | 'freyltee
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- [n] moral weakness
- [n] the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)
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| | Synonyms: | | debility, feebleness, frailness, infirmity, vice |
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| | See Also: | | asthenia, astheny, bad condition, cachexia, cachexy, evil, evilness, poor shape, unfitness, wasting | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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