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▪ I. lacking, vbl. n.|ˈlækɪŋ|
[f. lack v.1 + -ing1.]
1. The condition of being without or in want of (something); deficiency.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xiii. 26 And as low as a lombe for lakkyng of that hym nedeth. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xix. xiii. (1495) 872 The body is pale..for scarsytee and lackynge of blood. c1440Hylton Scala Perf. (W. de W. 1494) i. liii, This nought is no thinge elles but derkenes of conscyence, a lackynge of loue and of lyghte. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xxi. (Percy Soc.) 100 Where that is mesure there is no lacking. 1543tr. Act 1 Rich. III, c. 13 The sellar shall allow or rebate at the same pryce to the Byar..asmoche money as suche lackyng [F. defaute] after the rate shall amount to. a1548Hall Chron., Edw. IV 233 At every table were apoynted .v. or .vi. gentelmen..to se them served without lacking. a1851Moir Birth Flowers iv. Poet. Wks. (1852) I. 133 The Dreamer wist not what might be The thing a-lacking.
†2. The action of blaming, the condition of being blamed; blame, censure. Obs.
1387–8T. Usk Test. Love iii. ii. 112 Nothing by reason of that, turneth in-to thy praisinge ne lacking. c1440Hylton Scala Perf. (W. de W. 1494) ii. xxii, To suffre at that may falle, ease or unease: praysyng or lackyng.
▪ II. lacking, ppl. a.|ˈlækɪŋ|
[f. lack v.1 + -ing2.]
1. Of things: not at hand; missing; also, short in quantity.
1480Wardr. Acc. Edw. IV (1830) 145 Except ij yerdes lakking in alle. 1566Eng. Ch. Furniture (1866) 82 The Rood with a paire of Clappers Lackinge. 1611Bible Lev. ii. 13 Neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the Couenant of thy God to bee lacking from thy meat offering. 1879Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (ed. 6) II. ii. 11 Flour was lacking to make the sacramental bread. 1881Evans in Speaker's Comm. N.T. III. 241 Historical materials are lacking.
2. Of persons, etc.: Deficient, falling short, in want; also, defaulting. † Of a limb: Crippled. Of a district: Destitute.
1657Reeve God's Plea 18 Clisophus the Sycophant of Philip feigned himself lame, because his Master had through a wound a laking legge. 1805W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. III. 310 The lean and lacking corners of the empire produce the most hardy and robust people. 1838Chalmers Wks. XIII. 186 He may regard God in the light of a jealous exactor and himself in the light of a lacking tributary. 1868Nettleship Browning i. 44 The tree must give me its leaf or I must go lacking. 1868Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) II. vii. 23 In all kingly qualities he was utterly lacking. 1878Browning La Saisiaz 61 Grant..This same law found lacking now.
Add:[2.] Freq. const. in. (Later examples.)
1902G. B. Shaw Mrs. Warren's Profession Pref. p. xxi, Critics..revile me as lacking in passion, in feeling, in manhood. 1927S. T. Warner Mr. Fortune's Maggot 30 He would not like to think him lacking in natural affection. 1983R. Sutcliff Blue Remembered Hills (1984) ix. 69 Though not usually lacking in imagination, I never realized what marvels could have been wrought with a lick of prettier paint. |