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Definition of Inefficacy

1. Noun. A lack of efficacy.

Definition of Inefficacy

1. n. Want of power to produce the desired or proper effect; inefficiency; ineffectualness; futility; uselessness; fruitlessness; as, the inefficacy of medicines or means.

Definition of Inefficacy

1. Noun. The condition of being ineffective ¹

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Definition of Inefficacy

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Medical Definition of Inefficacy

1. Want of power to produce the desired or proper effect; inefficiency; ineffectualness; futility; uselessness; fruitlessness; as, the inefficacy of medicines or means. "The seeming inefficacy of censures." (Bp. Hall) "The inefficacy was soon proved, like that of many similar medicines." (James Gregory) Origin: L. Inefficacia. See In- not, and Efficacy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Inefficacy

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

1. Works by Washington Irving (1895)
"... Mackinaw — Picture of a Trading Post — inefficacy of Gold — Mr. Ramsay Crooks — His Warning Concerning Sioux and Blackfeet — Embarkation of Recruits. ..."

2. Sermons on Several Occasions by John Wesley (1845)
"Causes of the inefficacy of Christianity. " Is there no balm in Gilead ; is there no physician there ? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my ..."

3. The Writings of George Washington by George Washington (1890)
"The late Passage of three Vessels up the North River, (which we have just reed, advice of), is so plain a Proof of the inefficacy of all the Obstructions we ..."

4. The Annual Registeredited by Edmund Burke edited by Edmund Burke (1800)
"inefficacy of this for the great End for which they had taken up Arms.—Prevalence of the Ruffian Power. ..."

5. Essays, Moral and Literary by Vicesimus Knox (1803)
"OS THE inefficacy OF THAT STYLE OF SPEAKING AND WRITING WHICH MAY BE CALL- £D THE FROTHY. ON the decline of ancient learning and Augus. tan taste, ..."

6. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine (1816)
"What reflections does it not suggest to a thinking mind, upon the inefficacy of human laws, and the imperfections of Immun constitutions ! ..."

7. The Works of the Rev. John Newton by John Newton (1824)
"On the inefficacy of our knowledge. To be enabled to form a clear, consistent, and comprehensive judgment of the truths revealed in the Scripture, ..."

8. Essays on the Principles of Morality: And on the Private and Political by Jonathan Dymond (1845)
"A curse—Immorality of oaths—Oaths of the ancient Jews—Milton— Paley—The High Priest's adjuration—Early Christians—inefficacy of oaths—Motives to ..."

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