inaptitude
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Origin of inaptitude
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I visit Marconi less often now, but more from inaptitude than fear.
From New York Times ● May 24, 2022
If a critical ear might cavil at the incompleteness or inaptitude of his similes, to the warm imagination and excited fancy of the Irish peasant they had no such blemishes.
From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) by Charles James Lever
If his hand leave its proper course, whether of set purpose or through inaptitude, his work must suffer.
From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Robert Saunders Dowst
It likewise plainly follows, from the inaptitude of this argument to show that God is omnipresent, that thereby we can not prove infinity of power to belong to him.
From A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays by Charles Bradlaugh
This arises partly from the inaptitude of a still imperfect brain; but in proportion as the latter advances toward its mature state, the mental faculties also become vigorous and active.”
From A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Calvin Cutter
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