frailty
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- n the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)
- n moral weakness
- As anyone who's seen a Jackie Chan film knows, our hero always drags himself out of frailty and despair to fight, spin, laugh and win.
- To take advantage of Tut's apparent frailty, an ancient criminal, like a contemporary one, would need means, opportunity and motive.
- That question is being asked with increasing frequency by Catholics of all ranks, as the frailty of the 82-year-old Pontiff who has close ties to Opus Dei makes papal .