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Unsoundness

UNSOUND'NESS

, n.
1.
Defectiveness; as the unsoundness of timber.
2.
Defectiveness of faith; want of orthodoxy.
3.
Corruptness; want of solidity; as the unsoundness of principles.
4.
Defectiveness; as the unsoundness of fruit.
5.
Infirmity; weakness; as of body; as the unsoundness of the body or constitution.

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unsoundness

unsoundness

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unsoundness (countable and uncountable, plural unsoundnesses)

  1. The state of being unsound.
    • 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids
      Most likely he was accounting for that by the bias my job might be expected to give – aggravated by a phobia resulting from my recent sting – and he was wondering whether it might connote other, perhaps less harmless, unsoundnesses.

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