FRAILTY in a Sentence

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1. Of her frailty, let nothing now remembered be.
2. Nay, even to mere frailty they would award the lash without mercy.
3. Though ill for most of her life, physical frailty never stopped her from working.
4. If woman be the weaker creature, her frailty should be the more readily forgiven.
5. He had a natural sort of quiet distinction, an aloof pride, and also a certain look of frailty.

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 Meanings and Examples of FRAILTY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
frailty
 n.  condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally; infirmity; weakness of resolution
Classic Sentence:
1  Of her frailty, let nothing now remembered be.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
2  He had a natural sort of quiet distinction, an aloof pride, and also a certain look of frailty.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
3  It may serve, let us hope, to symbolise some sweet moral blossom that may be found along the track, or relieve the darkening close of a tale of human frailty and sorrow.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In I. THE PRISON DOOR
4  The evangelist was preaching "sin and redemption," the infinite grace of God and His pardon for human frailty.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
5  Nay, even to mere frailty they would award the lash without mercy.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
6  Great mistakes in the ruling part, many wrong and inconvenient laws, and all the slips of human frailty, will be born by the people without mutiny or murmur.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
Example Sentence:
1  If woman be the weaker creature, her frailty should be the more readily forgiven.
2  Though ill for most of her life, physical frailty never stopped her from working.