单词 | unableness |
释义 | † unablenessn. Obsolete. The condition of being unable; inability, incapacity; disability. (Very common c1500–1660.) ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > [noun] unablenessc1380 unabletyc1380 infirmityc1384 unabilityc1475 non-ability1477 inability1500 disability1545 unsufficiency1580 disablement1597 disableness1609 incapacity1611 uncapableness1611 incapability1632 incapableness1632 uncapabilitya1644 incompatibility1659 incompetibilitya1660 uncapacity1681 invalidity1698 disable1827 c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 245 Siche men as desiren benefices schulden not haue hem, but men þat fleen hem for drede of vnabilnesse of hemself & grete charge, as dide moyses. c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 4 Promysynge that he wolde be ware of alle passid vnhabilnesse, and yeue affectualy his diligence and laboure to that he hathe promysyd. 1501 in Lett. Rich. III & Hen. VII (Rolls) II. 100 The..commissary hath full power to dispense with that irregularity and to take away all infamy and unableness. 1560 Bp. J. Pilkington Aggeus the Prophete (new issue) sig. N.vii He byddeth vs when we feele our owne weakenes and vnablenes to fulfyll hys law, to come vnto hym. 1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 37 There is in us a certaine unablenesse of imitating such things as doe not very well agree with our naturall disposition. 1648 R. Boyle Seraphic Love (1700) xiii. 71 To convince the World of their unableness to emerge and recover out of that deep Abyss, wherein the load of Sin..had precipitated Fall'n Man. 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II. at Inability This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.c1380 |
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