LekhoriLekhoriThe condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally; weakness of resolution; liability to be deceived.
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 ;
A fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of infirmity.
From Middle English frelete, frailte, from Old French fraileté, from Latin fragilitās. By surface analysis, frail + -ty. Doublet of fragility.
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