Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for FRAIL'TY
FRAIL'TY, n.
- Weakness of resolution; infirmity; liableness to be deceived or seduced. God knows our frailty, and pities our weakness. Locke.
- Frailness; infirmity of body.
- Fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of infirmity; in this sense it has a plural.
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