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friability

NOUN
  1. excessive breakableness

How To Use friability In A Sentence

  • _ -- In acute arteritis we find swelling along the vessel, loss of elasticity, friability, and thickening of the walls; a roughness and loss of gloss of the inner coat, with the formation of coagula or pus in the vessel. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
  • The key difference between strongly predestinarian / Augustinian Catholics and Calvinists is that election for the latter means final election (to glory), whereas the former recognize the friability of assurance and salvation.
  • The fontis were due to different causes: the friability of the soil; some landslip at a depth beyond the reach of man; the violent summer rains; the incessant flooding of winter; long, drizzling showers. Les Miserables
  • And all of a sudden in the twentieth century came the discovery of its fragility and friability.
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