weakness

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  1. noun The condition or quality of being weak.
  2. noun A personal defect or failing.
  3. noun A special fondness or inclination: has a weakness for fast cars.
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  • Tshay-yay-yay! What a weakness is the love of women! —  OM: The Secret of Ahbor Valley
  • Your weakness is your strength, and by it you shall wound race after race. —  Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria
  • Another weakness is the preposterous idea that smugglers (or are they Communists?) —  SLEUTH’S ALCHEMY: Cases of Mrs. Bradley and Others - Gladys Mitchell
  • To an ordinary man, a weakness is a weakness, he blushes at it; to a man of intelligence, it is a tribute paid to his merits, it is even a proof of our discernment; he eulogizes our good taste and takes the credit of it. —  Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos, the Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century
  • To indicate the three great stages of the onward march of the truth, one may say: Jesus Christ, St. Paul, St. Augustin. Nearest to our weakness is the last. —  Saint Augustin
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  1. from Middle English weikenes, weykenesse; cf. Anglo-Saxon wācnys, weakness, from wāc, weak: see weak and -ness.
 

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