Frailty

  • 11Frailty — Emprise (film, 2001) Pour les articles homonymes, voir Emprise. Emprise Titre original Frailty Réalisation Bill Paxton Acteurs principaux Bill Paxton Matthew McConaughey …

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  • 12frailty — UK [ˈfreɪltɪ] / US noun Word forms frailty : singular frailty plural frailties 1) [countable/uncountable] the condition of having a weak character or weak moral standards Figures of authority are all too prone to human frailty. 2) [uncountable]… …

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  • 13frailty — n. human frailty * * * [ freɪltɪ] human frailty …

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  • 14frailty — frail|ty [ˈfreılti] n plural frailties 1.) [U] the lack of strength or health = ↑weakness frailty of ▪ the frailty of her thin body 2.) [U and C] something bad or weak in your character = ↑weakness ▪ …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 15frailty — noun 1 (U) lacking in strength or health: He noticed with shock the frailty of her thin body. | the frailty of the urban economy 2 (C) something bad or weak in your character: human frailties …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 16frailty — noun a) The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally; frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liability to be deceived or seduced. the limitations and restraints of civil government, and a legal constitution, may… …

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  • 17frailty — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ increasing ▪ Despite increasing physical frailty, he continued to write stories. ▪ human ▪ a figure of authority, but one all too prone to human frailties ▪ physical …

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  • 18frailty — Synonyms and related words: abulia, airiness, airy texture, amiable weakness, attenuation, bad habit, besetting sin, blemish, breakability, breakableness, brittleness, bug, cachexia, cachexy, catch, changeableness, chronic ill health, collapse,… …

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  • 19frailty — frail|ty [ freılti ] noun 1. ) uncount the condition of being physically weak and not in good health 2. ) count or uncount the condition of having a weak character or weak moral standards: Figures of authority are all too prone to human frailty …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 20frailty —    (of a woman)    copulation outside marriage    Literally, weakness of any kind:     Was this common, too common, story of a man s treachery and a woman s frailty the key to the secret? (W. Collins, I860) …

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