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Inability   /ˌɪnəbˈɪlɪti/   Listen
Inability

noun
1.
Lack of ability (especially mental ability) to do something.
2.
Lacking the power to perform.  Synonym: unfitness.





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"Inability" Quotes from Famous Books



... through observance of her methods in restoring land to a fertile condition. Our best success comes only when we work with her. When a soil has been robbed by man, and has been abandoned on account of inability to produce a profitable crop, the first thing nature does is to produce a growth of weeds, bushes, briers, or aught else of which the soil chances to have the seeds. It is nature's effort to restore some organic matter—some humus-making material—to ...
— Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement • Alva Agee
... miles away. Spencer-Smith, who had struggled forward gamely and made no unnecessary complaints, started with the party the next morning and kept going until shortly before noon. Then he reported his inability to proceed, and Mackintosh called a halt. Spencer-Smith suggested that he should be left with provisions and a tent while the other members of the party pushed on to Mount Hope, and pluckily assured Mackintosh that the rest would put him right and ...
— South! • Sir Ernest Shackleton
... the request of General Lyautey, then at the head of the military force of France, took me to see that General. I had to wait for him some time, as he was appearing before a committee of the Chamber of the Senate. His inability to agree with the Chamber caused his ...
— Face to Face with Kaiserism • James W. Gerard
... Franc-tireurs was presented at the door of a chateau, the proprietor would gracefully excuse himself with many suave and flattering expressions. He would present the soldiers with two francs each and request them to get a room at the hotel, at the same time expressing regret at his inability to oblige the gallant defenders of Le Belle France. His house was just then filled by the unexpected arrival of some relatives. Feigning sorrow at being deprived of the supreme honor of sleeping under his roof, the Franc-tireurs would make their adieux. ...
— The Story of Paul Boyton - Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World • Paul Boyton
... an instant, not greatly worried by the problem, as Jurgen could see, but mildly vexed by his inability to divine the solution out of ...
— Jurgen - A Comedy of Justice • James Branch Cabell


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