uncapacity
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]uncapacity (uncountable)
- (obsolete) A lack of capacity or ability; incapacity.
- 1720, John Shaw, “Of Religion”, in The Fundamental Doctrines of the Church of England, […], volume I, London: […] George Strahan, […] William Mears, […], page 36:
- […] tho' theſe ſeem'd to be very unfit Inſtruments for compaſſing of that great Deſign for which they were then employ'd, becauſe of their Inability and Uncapacity in performing the Work ſo very great and important; […]
References
[edit]- “uncapacity, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.