Dictionary entry

Fragility

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Fra‐gil″i‐ty (?), n. [L. fragilitas: cf. F. fragilité. Cf. Frailty.] 1. The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility. Bacon.

2. Weakness; feebleness.

An appearance of delicacy, and even of fragility, is almost essential to it. Burke.

3. Liability to error and sin; frailty.

The fragility and youthful folly of Qu. Fabius. Holland.