Crossword clues for frailties
The Collaborative International Dictionary
frailty \frail"ty\ (fr[=a]l"t[y^]), n.; pl. frailties (fr[=a]l"t[i^]z). [OE. frelete, freilte, OF. frailet['e], fr. L. fragilitas. See Frail, a., and cf. Fragility.]
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The condition or 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.
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A fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of infirmity.
Syn: Frailness; fragility; imperfection; failing.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of frailty English)
Usage examples of "frailties".
It was possible, in Worrell's view of human frailties, that even some specimens of Mankind could have been brain-washed into cooperating with their Catteni masters and would try to slip into the colony to cause trouble.
He had such great understanding of human frailties, such humor, such humility that I always wondered how my father could have been chosen to Hold, when Munchaun was so much the better human being.
He, on the other hand, was beyond such frailties, coming as he did from a line of incorruptibles.
It had been a vision fueled by desperation, and nourished by ignorance, but whatever its frailties and its absurdities, it had moved him, after its fashion.
And though the men of Erith might zealously use the tight-sprung limbs of their battery against these saucy foes, they shall fling missiles in vain, for gramarye eludes brute force and passes it by, to smite with stealth from the flank most unguarded, using the very frailties of Men to great advantage.