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frailness Now rare.|ˈfreɪlnɪs|
[f. frail a. + -ness.]
The quality of being frail; liability to be broken or destroyed, fragility; lack of permanence; weakness, physical or mental; moral weakness, inability to resist temptation.
a1300Cursor M. 25337 Thurgh frelnes of oure fless. c1374Chaucer Boeth. iv. pr. ii. 87 (Camb. MS.) Yif thou knowe clerly the frelenesse of yuel, the stidefastnesse of good is knowen. c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 405 Freelnesse and towghnesse [of bread]. 1447O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 195 In a uergyn pure The freelnesse took of oure nature. c1450Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 108 Ȝe must consyder the frelnes of mankende. 1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1570) 236 Let hir [fortune] passe and hir fraylenes defye. 1535Coverdale Rom. xv. 1 We that are stronge ought to beare y⊇ fraylenesse of them which are weake. 1545Richmond. Wills (Surtees) 55 After mannes fraylnes of condycons deyth to every creatour is certan. 1687J. Norris Misc., Of Courage 166 There is nothing among all the frailnesses and uncertaintys of this sublunary world so tottering and unstable as the virtue of a Coward. 1871Browning Balaust. 160 Pity for the frailness found in flesh. 1882C. A. Davis in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. cxix. 81–8 The depression arising from mortal frailness. |