Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Lack of preparation; unpreparedness; unreadiness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Lack of preparation.
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- noun obsolete Lack of
preparation .
Etymologies
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im- + preparation
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Examples
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"BORE" — to annoy excessively by your presence, your conversation, or speeches; to be unmerciful in the frequency and length of your visits; some are bored by themselves, through want of something to do — (very generally used.) "FESS" — an acknowledged impreparation on a lesson; an indirect proposition to "make up."
"Local Phrases," The North Carolina University Magazine 1(April 1852): 128 No Author 1852
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