| 单词 |
unableness |
| 释义 |
† unˈableness Obs.
[f. unable a.]
The condition of being unable; inability, incapacity; disability. (Very common c 1500–1660.)
c1380Wyclif 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. c1425Found. St. Bartholomew's (E.E.T.S.) 4 Promysynge that he wolde be ware of alle passid vnhabilnesse, and yeue affectualy his diligence and laboure to that he hathe promysyd. 1501in 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. 1560Pilkington Expos. Aggeus (1562) 172 He biddeth us when we feele oure weakness & unablenes to fulfil his law, to come unto hym. 1638Junius Paint. Ancients 37 There is in us a certaine unablenesse of imitating such things as doe not very well agree with our naturall disposition. 1648Boyle Seraph. Love xiii. (1700) 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. 1727Bailey (vol. II) s.v. Inability. |
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