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Middle English
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Etymology
From Old English *brotul.
Adjective
brotel
- Fragile, brittle, easily broken.
- Easily hurt or destroyed, feeble.
- Changeable, mutable; precarious, uncertain.
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Merchant's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 1279-1280:
[...] On brotel ground they builde, and brotelnesse
They finde, whan they wene sikernesse.- On brittle ground they build, and insecurity
They find when they expect security.
- Morally weak, fickle, vacillating, untrustworthy.
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