inarticulation love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Inarticulateness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Inarticulateness.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun uncountable The state of being inarticulate; inarticulateness.
  • noun education, US Any point in the educational system in which the development of the individual is hindered.
  • noun An inarticulate or underarticulated utterance.

Etymologies

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in- + articulation

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Examples

  • This, coming after that crusade resulted in a showcase for his inarticulation and inability to win an argument with even a complete idiot who equated not welcoming girls to the Boy Scouts with not allowing gays to marry.

    fourfour: 2009

  • Randy and Professor Robbins sat quietly for several minutes, engaging in a chess match of inarticulation.

    Suicide Draft Nathaniel Tower 2011

  • This, coming after that crusade resulted in a showcase for his inarticulation and inability to win an argument with even a complete idiot who equated not welcoming girls to the Boy Scouts with not allowing gays to marry.

    He who must not be paid attention 2009

  • The Oracles indeed meant to be obscure; but then it was by the ambiguity of the expression, and not by the inarticulation of the words.

    Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

  • To the, um, passionate ? bloggers out there -- not much else is communicated or emphasized other than your inarticulation and frustration.

    Next Target: David Pepper Nathaniel Livingston 2005

  • They listened appalled, while he sketched a brief account of their terrible experience of the afternoon, his inarticulation and understatement lending a much more awesome gravity to the tale than any more elaborate telling could have done.

    Sweet Danger Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1933

  • I for one cannot believe that love of one's country must needs consist in blindness to its social faults, to deafness to its social discords, of inarticulation to its social wrongs.

    Excerpt from Goldman's speech to the jury at her trial for conspiracy to obstruct the draft Jewish Women's Archive 1917

  • I for one cannot believe that love of one's country must needs consist in blindness to its social faults, to deafness to its social discords, of inarticulation to its social wrongs.

    Excerpt from Goldman's speech to the jury at her trial for conspiracy to obstruct the draft Jewish Women's Archive 1917

  • I for one cannot believe that love of one's country must needs consist in blindness to its social faults, to deafness to its social discords, of inarticulation to its social wrongs.

    Excerpt from Goldman's speech to the jury at her trial for conspiracy to obstruct the draft Jewish Women's Archive 1917

  • I for one cannot believe that love of one's country must needs consist in blindness to its social faults, to deafness to its social discords, of inarticulation to its social wrongs.

    Address To The Jury 1917

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