foible

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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

If that wheedling villain has wrought upon Foible to detect me, I'm ruined.

From The Way of the World by Congreve, William

For, as Dean Elderberry Foible, the head of the faculty, said, the motion that they had before them amounted practically to a revolution.

From Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich by Leacock, Stephen

Kolbe who for a long time had made his Temper his only Study, plainly perceiv'd his Foible, artfully wrought upon it, and in the sequel made it subservient to the Accomplishment of his Designs.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

Believe me, that you call only Foible, is a dangerous Disease.

From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Erasmus, Desiderius