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Definition of Fecklessness
1. Noun. Worthlessness due to being feeble and ineffectual.
Definition of Fecklessness
1. n. absence of merit.
Definition of Fecklessness
1. Noun. the state of being feckless ¹
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Definition of Fecklessness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fecklessness
Literary usage of Fecklessness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Some Brief Comments on Passing Events: Made Between February 4th, 1853, and by Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff (1884)
"... but Persian barbarism is far worse; and the mixture of 'fecklessness' nnd
frivolity with blood and violence is naturally very irritating to Englishmen. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1821)
"... looking man," said the youth, " I pity thy fecklessness—but thy white hairs—and
whiter never came under the hackle, canna buy thy up-putting. ..."
3. The Exemplary Theatre by Harley Granville-Barker (1922)
"Why should the art of acting, more than another, more than any other human
activity, thrive upon fecklessness? Success, of course — real success, ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1881)
"There is so much fecklessness about the people here, so careless- and content to
live in filth. "To-day some were so naughty, ..."