frailty

名词 n.
/ˈfɹeɪlti/    /ˈfɹeɪ(ə)lti/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally; weakness of resolution; liability to be deceived. uncountable
    — the limitations and restraints of civil government, and a legal constitution, may be defended, either from reason, which reflecting on the great frailty and corruption of human nature, teaches, that no man can safely be trusted with unlimited authority ;
  2. A fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of infirmity. countable,uncountable

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frailties plural

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From Middle English frelete, frailte, from Old French fraileté, from Latin fragilitās. By surface analysis, frail + -ty. Doublet of fragility.
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