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单词 to be wanting to oneself
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to be wanting to oneself
(c) to be wanting to oneself: to fail to do justice to oneself; to fall below the standard imposed by one's character and abilities. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] > fail or fall short
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fault1486
to be wanting to oneself1582
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undershoot1874
to come up short1917
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1582 R. Browne Life & Manners all True Christians ii. clxiv. sig. N2v They faile and are wanting to them selues.
1600 Abp. G. Abbot Expos. Prophet Ionah xxi. 451 True wisedome had taught that honorable Generall, to be no way wanting to himselfe.
1642 D. Rogers Naaman 11 Some alledge God will not be wanting to any who are not wanting to themselves.
1701 W. Wotton Hist. Rome 343 He was mightily wanting also to himself in the choice of his Officers.
1785 W. Cowper Let. 31 Dec. (1981) II. 438 You observe therefore that I am not wanting to myself; he that is so, has no just claim on the assistance of others.
1799 Ann. Reg. 1794 (Otridge ed.) Hist. Europe 89/1 The Vendéans were not wanting to themselves in so terrible a crisis.
1842 Dublin Univ. Mag. June 759 Nor was that brave man wanting to himself or his cause on this trying occasion.
1872 W. H. Jervis Gallican Church II. x. 356 The stout-hearted Christophe de Beaumont, again, was not wanting to himself in the emergency.
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