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Security Council meeting, or a small old-growth forest of rustic redwood, there’s no mistaking his idiosyncratic mien, redolent of pine and frangibility.

From Washington Post • Jan. 13, 2016

The history of rachitis, of melanosis, and of osteoporosis, as related to an abnormal frangibility of the bones, is a part of our common medical knowledge.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.

Brittleness -- N. brittleness &c. adj.; fragility, friability, frangibility, fissibility†; house of cards, house of glass.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

In iron clad Sometimes thy feature roughen to the sight, And oft transparent art thou seen in glass, Portending frangibility.

From Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by Billings, E. R.