foible
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Therefore spare your ecstasies for another occasion, and slip down the back stairs, where Foible waits to consult you.
From The Way of the World by Congreve, William
Have a good heart, Foible: Mirabell's gone to give security for him.
From The Way of the World by Congreve, William
How kindly partial to her Penitent in finding him, on examining his conscience, guilty of only one capital sin and to call that by the gentle name of Foible!
From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Bruce, Wiliam Cabell
The Wit that genteely glances at a Foible, is smartly retorted, or generously forgiven; because the Merit of the Reprover is as well known as the Merit of the Reproved.
From Essays on Wit No. 2 by Flecknoe, Richard
Foible, foi′bl, n. a weak point in one's character: a failing.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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