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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Imperfection.
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Examples
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It hath pleased the devil drunkenness to give place to the devil wrath; one unperfectness shows me another, to make me frankly despise myself.
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In another book Caxton tells us that he knows his own "simpleness and unperfectness" in both French and English.
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It hath pleased the devil drunkenness to give place to the devil wrath: one unperfectness shows me another, to make me frankly despise myself.
Elson Grammar School Literature v4 William H. Elson
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It hath pleased the devil drunkenness to give place to the devil wrath; one unperfectness shows me another, to make me frankly despise myself.
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Un is prefixed to most substantives which have an English termination, as unfertileness, unperfectness, which, if they have borrowed terminations, take in or im, as infertility, imperfection; uncivil, incivility; unactive, inactivity.
A Grammar of the English Tongue Samuel Johnson 1746
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And afterward when I remembered myself of my simpleness and unperfectness that I had in both languages, that is to wit in
Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations Edmund Spenser 1730
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It hath pleased the devil drunkenness to give place to the devil wrath; one unperfectness shows me another, to make me frankly despise myself.
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It hath pleased the devil drunkenness to give place to the devil wrath: one unperfectness shows me another, to make me frankly despise myself.
Othello William Shakespeare 1590
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