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Webster 1913 Edition
Fragility
1.
The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility.
Bacon.
2.
Weakness; feebleness.
An appearance of delicacy, and even of
fragility
, is almost essential to it [beauty]. Burke.
3.
Liability to error and sin; frailty.
[Obs.]
The
fragility
and youthful folly of Qu. Fabius. Holland.
Webster 1828 Edition
Fragility
FRAGIL'ITY
, n.1.
Brittleness; easiness to be broken.2.
Weakness; liableness to fail.3.
Frailty; liableness to fault.Definition 2025
fragility
fragility
English
Noun
fragility (plural fragilities)
- The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility.
- 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
- It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; perhaps to moralise on the oneness or fragility of the planet, or to see humanity for the small and circumscribed thing that it is; […].
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- Weakness; feebleness.
- (obsolete) Liability to error and sin; frailty.
Translations
condition or quality of being fragile
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weakness
References
- fragility in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913