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adjective (weaklier, weakliest)
- frail, Frail, sickly or of a delicate constitution; weak.
- 1885: I lay in case and confined to my bed for four months before I was able to rise and health returned to me. " Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 18
- 1889: I'd always been but , / And my baby was just born; / A neighbour minded her by day, / I minded her till morn. " WB Yeats, "The Ballad of Moll Magee"
adverb
- With little strength or force
Etymology: From weak + -ly.
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