English

Noun
frailty

1. The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally; frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liability to be deceived or seduced.

#* 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 36, n. 1.
#*: 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 ;

1. A fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of infirmity.

Translations
trans-top|condition of being frail
Czech: k�ehkost f, slabost f
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Portuguese: t|pt|fragilidade|f
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References
R:Webster 1913

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