fragility, fragilite, fragil1tie

[Fr. fragilité, from Lat. frag i litas, from fragilis = fragile (q. v.); Ital. fragilità; Sp. fragilidad.] 1. The quality or state of being fragile, or brittle; easine to be broken; brittlene . "Of fragility the cause is an impotency to be extended; and therefore stone is more fragile than metal."- Bacon : Natural History , § 841. *2. Frailty, weakne ; liability to fail; liablene to fault. "Earnestly beseeching the dictator to forgive this humane fragilitie and youthful folly of Qu. Fabius."P. Holland: Livius , p. 307. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, fragment