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Definition of Ineptitudes
1. ineptitude [n] - See also: ineptitude
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ineptitudes
Literary usage of Ineptitudes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835)
"... even down to the profound ineptitudes of their party in these days. A clever
fellow might make something of this hint. ..."
2. The French Revolution by Hilaire Belloc (1911)
"For the rest, the character of Louis betrayed certain ineptitudes (the word
ineptitude is far more accurate in this connection than the word weakness), ..."
3. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1914)
"... in writing The Rivals, used a farcical plot to portray the peculiar graces
which elite society admired and the peculiar ineptitudes which it despised. ..."
4. La démocratie libérale by Thomas Hodgkin, Etienne Vacherot (1896)
"... upon the whole, pure, correct, and intelligible, a delightful contrast to the
verbosity of Cassiodorus and the turgid ineptitudes of Ennodius. ..."
5. The American Historical Review by American Historical Association (1903)
"... "declarations si vantées des Américains . . . ineptitudes," No. 29, p. 2.
The exact words seem to have been given in the Mercure de France, Aug. 29, p. ..."
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