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Definition of Lacked
1. lack [v] - See also: lack
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lacked
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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