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Frailty


FRA'ILTY, noun

1. Weakness of resolution; infirmity; liableness to be deceived or seduced.

God knows our frailty and pities our weakness.

2. Frailness; infirmity of body.

3. Fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of infirmity; in this sense it has a plural.