Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The condition or quality of being frail; weakness; infirmity; frailty.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Frailty.
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- noun The state of being
frail ;frailty ;weakness .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)
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Examples
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The frailness of Vishneva's Giselle is always apparent in a way that truly makes you fear for her.
Mariinsky's 'Giselle': Less is more Sarah Kaufman 2011
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Elsinore, one moment overtoppling her slender frailness, the next moment splashing a hundred tons of water on her deck and flinging her skyward as they passed beneath and foamed and crested from sight in the murky gray to leeward.
CHAPTER XXXIV 2010
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Her thinness and her oldness are the sum total of her frailness.
Joe Woodward: Joan Didion: Late in Life Joe Woodward 2012
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Her thinness and her oldness are the sum total of her frailness.
Joe Woodward: Joan Didion: Late in Life Joe Woodward 2012
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Rather than realize the frailness of the human condition, each mishap reinforced our belief that we were invincible or at least perpetually lucky.
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Her little pink and white face looked unusually small under its crown of silvery hair, and there was a frailness about her that caught sharply at Inspector Curry's heart.
Twin Moons 2010
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Whether we are an armchair traveler exploring virtual worlds, or a mountaineer in search of the next highest peak, through our imaginations we have exceeded the frailness of our bodies, but perhaps not as easily our propensity for boredom.
Kiša Lala: Space Architecture Kiša Lala 2010
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Whether we are an armchair traveler exploring virtual worlds, or a mountaineer in search of the next highest peak, through our imaginations we have exceeded the frailness of our bodies, but perhaps not as easily our propensity for boredom.
Kiša Lala: Space Architecture Kiša Lala 2010
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I think that belief comes from a (probably unconscious) residually sexist belief system, one in which we must protect the virtue and frailness of womanhood.
GOP Consultant On CNN: Sometimes It's "Accurate" To Call A Woman A "Bitch" 2009
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I knew I'd love that little thing once I got on my feet, got used to it's peculiar frailness and mewling cries, figured out what was going on a little.
Archive 2007-03-01 kittenpie 2007
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