In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
FRAILTY
frailty, vice
(noun) moral weakness
infirmity, frailty, debility, feebleness, frailness, valetudinarianism
(noun) the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
frailty (countable and uncountable, plural frailties)
(uncountable) The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally; weakness of resolution; liability to be deceived or seduced.
Synonyms: frailness, infirmity
A fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of infirmity.
Source: Wiktionary
Frail"ty, n.; pl. Frailties. Etym: [OE. frelete, freilte, OF. fraileté, fr. L. fragilitas. See Frail, a., and cf. Fragility.]
1. The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally, frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or seduced. God knows our frailty, [and] pities our weakness. Locke.
2. A fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of infirmity.
Syn.
– Frailness; fragility; imperfection; failing.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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NEGLECT
(verb) leave undone or leave out; “How could I miss that typo?”; “The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten”
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