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Definition of Manque
1. Adjective. Unfulfilled or frustrated in realizing an ambition.
Definition of Manque
1. Adjective. (postpositive) unable to fully realise one's ambitions; would-be ¹
2. Adjective. (postpositive) Unfulfilled due to some inherent flaw or an — often uncertain — constitutional lacking of some kind. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Manque
1. frustrated in the fulfillment of one's aspirations [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Manque
Literary usage of Manque
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire by Edward Gibbon (1789)
"... maid in La Fontaine , " Je voudrois biei "* avoir ce qui manque. " CHAP. LVII.
1 I am indebted for his character and ..."
2. Proceedings by International Congress of Americanists (1902)
"vrage, mais le commencement de l'histoire de la Conquête manque complètement,
car le premier chapitre dont on ait un fragment est le douzième ; et son sujet ..."
3. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the by Reuben Gold Thwaites, Jesuits (1900)
"... pour toutes que je ne manque de rien dans ma mission. si j'avois des besoins
je suis assez a portée de Quebec et de montreal ou nous avons des maisons, ..."
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