Definition for FRAIL'TY

FRAIL'TY, n.

  1. Weakness of resolution; infirmity; liableness to be deceived or seduced. God knows our frailty, and pities our weakness. Locke.
  2. Frailness; infirmity of body.
  3. Fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of infirmity; in this sense it has a plural.

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