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WEAKNESS

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weakness substantiv

1. (stare de) slăbiciune, debilitate, neputinţă; infirmitate.

2. moliciune.

3. slăbiciune; netrăinicie; şubrezenie;

the weakness of his argumentation slăbiciunea argumentării lui.

4. slăbiciune, înclinaţie, pornire;

to have a weakness for a avea o slăbiciune pentru.

5. punct slab;

this is his weakness acesta e punctul lui slab.

6. slăbiciune, defect, greşeală; păcat.

7. slăbiciune, neputinţă de a rezista (ispitei etc.).

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

She was a loving baby—I know that; I knew it, years before you ever saw her—and through the best part of her weakness you gave her the wounds she died of.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

It must have been my weakness that made me hesitate to tell it to my friend, but I felt it all the more, like unshed tears.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Here was a man who could do anything, was the message she read there, and it accorded ill with the weakness of his spoken thought.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

She knew not how to support herself, and from actual weakness sat down and cried for half-an-hour.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

Not so, friend, quoth big John; it is not weakness of heart for I know the lad well.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He, on his part, had pretty well fought his weakness down.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

He recommended it for all the children, but particularly for the weakness in little Bella's throat,—both sea air and bathing.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

God raises my weakness and gives me courage to endure the worst.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial; but generally speaking, it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber: it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

Any ocular weakness.

(Myasthenia Class I, NCI Thesaurus)

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