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frail adjective. ME.
[Old French fraile, frele (mod. frele) from Latin fragilis FRAGILE.]
Morally weak; unable to resist temptation; (of a woman, arch.) unchaste. Now literary. ME.
W. Irving The leniency of one who felt himself to be but frail. E. A. Freeman A child of the frail Abbess of Leominster.
Liable to break or be broken; easily crushed or destroyed; fragile, transient. ME.
J. Martineau A profounder but a frailer bliss. J. F. Lehmann The sun burnt more fiercely through the frail shield of the willow leaves.
Weak in constitution or health; susceptible to illness; weakened by illness. ME.
P. H. Gibbs She looked thin, frail, and over-worked. W. Boyd The shock was too much for his frail body and he died in..the morning.
Tender. rare (Spenser). Only in L16.
frailly adverb ME.
frailness noun (now rare) ME.