Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Vulnerability.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being vulnerable; vulnerability.
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- noun
vulnerability
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Examples
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As we grow to be attached to the things that are in the world, there comes over us what I may call a vulnerableness of mind.
Sermons. [Vol. I.] 1808-1892 1843
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Richmond, General Lee's military career was destined to become associated with the eastern theatre of warfare alone, instead of with the western, where the successes of the army of Northern Virginia, unhampered by the vulnerableness of
History of Virginia 1924
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That he could still argue the point with her showed the inner vulnerableness, the inner need of her affection and of peace with her, which he still felt, far as certain new habits were beginning to sweep him from her.
Marcella Humphry Ward 1885
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One marked result of that now vulnerableness of soul produced in her by the shock of that February morning was a great softening toward Catherine.
Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885
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One marked result of that new vulnerableness of soul produced in her by the shock of that
Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885
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"I think officers that open up the trunk of a vehicle, the back hatch of a vehicle, and see a deceased 3-year-old and a 5-year-old, I think each one of us think about our own children, the vulnerableness of life."
NY Daily News MICHAEL SHERIDAN 2011
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