What does "fragility" mean?
Fragility: Weakness; feebleness. An appearance of delicacy, and even of fragility, is almost essential to it [beauty]. Burke.
Additional senses
- 2.Liability to error and sin; frailty. [Obs.] The fragility and youthful folly of Qu. Fabius. Holland.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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