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noun

Fragility n.

The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility.

Weakness; feebleness. "An appearance of delicacy, and even of fragility, is almost essential to it (beauty)."

Liability to error and sin; frailty. (Obs.) "The fragility and youthful folly of Qu. Fabius."

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Etymology of 'Fragility'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... the possible use of these specimens it should be noticed that similar stool-like objects are made of clay, the softness and fragility of which would render them unsuitable for use as mealing plates or mortars, and it would also appear that they are rather fragile for use as stools. I would suggest that they may have served as supports for articles such ...

— Ancient art of the province of Chiriqui, Colombia • William Henry Holmes

... seem the very essence of fragility, as they break from the parent tree at a touch; and yet one of the willows furnishes the tough, pliable and enduring withes from which are woven the baskets of the world. The willows, usually thin in branch, sparse of somewhat pale foliage, of so-called mournful mien, are yet bursting with ...

— Getting Acquainted with the Trees • J. Horace McFarland

... her fixed idea, which soon became a monomania, that she alone was to blame for the Judge's death. It now seemed to him, in his sympathy with her grief, that she had been like a child entrusted with some frail, priceless object and not warned of its fragility. She herself cried out constantly with astonished hatred upon a world ...

— The Squirrel-Cage • Dorothy Canfield

... seat across the hearth. A book was on her knees, but she had not been reading, for her fingers were playing carelessly with the uncut leaves. Against her soft black dress the whiteness of her face and hands showed almost too intense a contrast, and yet there was no hint of fragility in her appearance. From head to foot she was abounding with energy, throbbing with life, and though Carraway would still, perhaps, have hesitated to call her beautiful, his eyes dwelt with pleasure on the noble lines of her relaxed figure. ...

— The Deliverance; A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields • Ellen Glasgow

... most spiritual feminine conceptions of the classic painters, had he seen a loveliness more ethereal. Her skin was so exquisite, the coloring of her hair and eyes and of her lips was so delicately fine that it gave her the fragility of things bordering upon the supernal—of rare exotics, of sunset and moonbeam effects. No, he had been under no spell of illusion as to her beauty. It was a reality—the more fascinating because it waxed and waned not with regularity of period ...

— The Grain Of Dust - A Novel • David Graham Phillips

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