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Definition of Frailties
1. frailty [n] - See also: frailty
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frailties
Literary usage of Frailties
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of Mrs. Coghlan: Daughter of the Late Major Moncrieffe by Coghlan (Margaret Moncrieffe), Mrs Coghlan (1864)
"Are no allowances to be made for the frailties of inexperienced, ... very frailties
they impute to others ? Oh, no ! but riches and power yield a ..."
2. American Book Prices Current (1921)
"MS. of his Article in " Bibliographica," " On the Artistic frailties of the
Woodcut Books of Ulm and Augsburg in the 15th Century." Signed. 12 leaves. ..."
3. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"... and all their little hopes and fears and frailties are so natural in their
absurdity that the incongruity of thoughts and images is carried to the ..."
4. An exposition of the Creed by John Pearson, Edward Burton (1857)
"whole man, so he was a complete sufferer in the whole ; in his body, by such
dolorous infirmities as arise internally from human frailties, and by such ..."
5. Gotthold's Emblems, Or, Invisible Things Understood by Things that are Made by Christian Scriver (1857)
"frailties. APRIL 21. A GOOD man was complaining of his ... frailties. I am, he
said, like a child, who this moment gives, and the next takes back the gift. ..."
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