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frailties

frailties is the plural of frailty.

Meaning of frailty

Noun

frailty (countable and uncountable, plural frailties)

  1. (uncountable) The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally; weakness of resolution; liability to be deceived.
    • 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 ;1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral., London: Oxford University Press, published 1973, § 36, n. 1
  2. A fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of infirmity.

Questions about frailties

What is frailties the plural of?
Frailties is the plural of frailty.

Words near frailties in the dictionary

  1. frailness
  2. frailnesses
  3. frailocracy
  4. frails
  5. frailsome
  6. frailties
  7. frailty
  8. fraim
  9. fraims
  10. frain
  11. frained

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