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Incompetency is manifested in a variety of ways, but an irrepressible tendency to fine writing is associated with the greater number of them.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 by Various

Among his published discourses, one of the best is on the "Incompetency of Reason, and the Fitness of Revelation;" from Acts xvii.

From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Turnbull, Robert

Incompetency was no longer the badge of high military rank.

From The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812 The Chronicles of America Series, Volume 17 by Paine, Ralph Delahaye

Incompetency in Richmond will some day lose it.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp

Incompetency," said the article in part, "is what we long since learned to expect from John Hamilton Barclay.

From The Lieutenant-Governor A Novel by Carryl, Guy Wetmore