Definition of Frail

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Definition of Frail

Frail

A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins.

The quantity of raisins -- about thirty-two, fifty-six, or seventy-five pounds, -- contained in a frail.

A rush for weaving baskets.

Easily broken; fragile; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish; easily destroyed; not tenacious of life; weak; infirm.

Tender.

Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; also, unchaste; -- often applied to fallen women.

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Frail Quotations

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Albert Einstein

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
Victor Hugo

How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.
Sylvia Plath

The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.
Corazon Aquino

The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
Jacques Derrida

The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars.
Giotto di Bondone

I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now.
Liam Neeson

An increasing number of Canadians must juggle the demands of work with the need to care for children, or for family members who are ill or too frail to care for themselves. Our programs have simply not kept pace with these societal changes.
Kim Campbell

Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.
Leslie Fiedler

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
Max Lerner

Frail Translations

frail in French is souffreteuxse
frail in Italian is acciaccoso, fragile

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