incompletion

Historical Examples

• "Women always spoil their vices by incompletion," observed Paul.

  The Making of a Prig

  Evelyn Sharp

• If one loses somebody like that, it leaves a sense of incompletion.

  The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett

  Compton Mackenzie

• In a sterner kind, that of the statues in the sacristy of St. Lorenzo equals it, and there again by incompletion.

  The Seven Lamps of Architecture

  John Ruskin

• The delight of union stole through her, more exquisite for incompletion.

  The Man Who Was Good

  Leonard Merrick

• We are undoubtedly in an unpleasant state of incompletion as a nation to-day, but by no means in one of decadence.

  Three Things

  Elinor Glyn