Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Inability. Wyclif; Milton, Areopagitica.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Inability.
Etymologies
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Examples
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IT may be a bit more complicated: amnesty — as I understand it — means unability of the state to prosecute anybody for amnested deeds, but may not mean prohibition of investigation.
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The Mean Girls star is hounded by snappers wherever she goes and has previously blamed the intense media attention for contributing to her unability to find acting work.
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IT may be a bit more complicated: amnesty — as I understand it — means unability of the state to prosecute anybody for amnested deeds, but may not mean prohibition of investigation.
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Edwards has the talk but when it comes to decisions, his political career, unfortunately, shows his unability to go forward. tidho
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Bye Bill ... thanks for interjecting rasce, lies, unaccurate facts, the unability to do math and so much more to your legacy ...
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My - Spanish speaking - female expat friends lament the unability to communicate with their female Spanish neighbors, despite knowing the language, complaining that Spanish women talk only about men (husbands or novios), children, clothes and celebrities.
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According to the reports for the year 2007, 20% of the worker in the IT sector in the region of Hyderabad, are facing mental disorders due to their unability to handle the work pressure.
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Capitalism had to show its unability to be a sustainable economical system.
Think Progress » Armitage Fears Bombing Campaign Will ‘End Up Empowering Hezbollah’ 2006
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Christ urged it as wherewith to justify himself, that he preached in public; yet writing is more public than preaching; and more easy to refutation, if need be, there being so many whose business and profession merely it is to be the champions of truth; which if they neglect, what can be imputed but their sloth, or unability?
Areopagitica 2007
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Christ urged it as wherewith to justify himself, that he preached in public; yet writing is more public than preaching; and more easy to refutation, if need be, there being so many whose business and profession merely it is to be the champions of truth; which if they neglect, what can be imputed but their sloth, or unability?
Areopagitica 2007
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