Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being unable; inability.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Inability.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality of being
unable .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Yet, as you shall think, through reason of the utter dark I made scarce a mile in an hour or even two full hours; and so grew bitter by reason of mine unableness to go forward with a proper and free stride.
The Night Land 2007
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Yet, as you shall think, through reason of the utter dark I made scarce a mile in an hour or even two full hours; and so grew bitter by reason of mine unableness to go forward with a proper and free stride.
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Jeannette and my unableness to make her even sensible, still less to move her to pity, of my love and the having never dared to discover it unto any have brought me whereas you see me; and if that which you have promised me come not, one way or another, to pass, you may be assured that my life will be brief. '
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344
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And they would have you believe that their unableness to converse among ladies and men of parts proceedeth from purity of mind, and to their witlessness they give the name of modesty, as if forsooth no woman were modest but she who talketh with her chamberwoman or her laundress or her bake-wench; the which had Nature willed, as they would have it believed, she had assuredly limited unto them their prattle on other wise.
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344
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Fra Puccio doubted not but that the fasting was the cause of her unableness to sleep and it was for this she tossed thus about the bed; wherefore, in the simplicity of his heart,
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344
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