Definition of Lacked

1. Verb. (past of lack) ¹

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Definition of Lacked

1. lack [v] - See also: lack

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lacked

laciniations
laciniolate
lacinula
lacinulae
lacis cell
lack
lack-lustre
lackadaisical
lackadaisically
lackadaisicalness
lackadaisy
lackaday
lackbrain
lackbrains
lacke
lacked (current term)
lacker
lackered
lackering
lackers
lackest
lacketh
lackey
lackeyed
lackeying
lackeys
lacking
lacking(p)
lackland
lacklands

Literary usage of Lacked

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880: Negroes as Slaves by George Washington Williams (1883)
"NEGROES POSSESSED COURAGE BUT lacked LEADERS. — INSURRECTION or SLAVES. ... Negatively, not because they lacked the courage, but because they lacked leaders ..."

2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"Too late is now to speke ofthat matera, Prudence, alas, one of thine eyen three Me lacked alway, ere that I came here : For on time passed ..."

3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"... and when he lacked the opportunity to labour himself, or to fill up the circle of his knowledge, he has nevertheless pointed out to hia successors new ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... he lacked practice in the larger style of sculpture. In fact, from Vasari's time, ... lacked ..."

5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... the unity of which lacked external organization, but was sufficiently established by its possession of one invisible head, one faith, one baptism. ..."

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