Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Fragility.
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- noun The property of being
fragile .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I think there's a lot of fragileness about our psyche right now in this city.
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Once you get somebody thinking about the fragileness and brevity of our time here on Earth, their bra strap practically unhooks itself.
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Page: 154 first discovered poetry and had come up softly, hardly daring to move lest in its very fragileness it should vanish; then as it grew clearer she had come up triumphantly because there was so much joy in her heart.
DEVELOPMENT A NOVEL BY W. BRYHER WITH A PREFACE BY AMY LOWELL 1920
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"A continual reminder of the fragileness of life and the fact that people when they look for hope are looking for constance in their life, in a world that's influx."
1-Top Stories 2010
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We shall survive, succeed and endure to a point where these acts will only be a faint memory and cautionary tale for future generations about the fragileness of liberty and the tyrannical enslavement of modern liberal philosophy.
RedState 2009
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I used this as an outlet to express my emotional fragileness.
Home 2009
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I think it would be, in light of the fragileness, in light of the pain we've experienced, in light of the high unemployment, a very, very severely disruptive act and experience.
Democracy Now! 2009
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It does not mean they should be written off, yet it exposes fragileness in the entire outfit, '
India eNews 2008
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It does not mean they should be written off, yet it exposes fragileness in the entire outfit, '
India eNews 2008
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It does not mean they should be written off, yet it exposes fragileness in the entire outfit, '
India eNews 2008
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