Lameness
['lemnɪs]
Definition
(noun.) an imperfection or defectiveness; 'a stylist noted for the lameness of his plots'.
(noun.) disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet.
Checker: Sandra--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The condition or quality of being lame; as, the lameness of an excuse or an argument.
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Examples
- The soil being soft the hoofs of the horse grow long and produce lameness. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The boy was busied about some mechanical contrivance; his lameness made him fond of sedentary occupation. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Or the occupation to which he devotes himself may be of an opposite kind, and he may have the other sort of lameness. Plato. The Republic.
- A horse so treated would develop a slight lameness, which would be put down to a strain in exercise or a touch of rheumatism, but never to foul play. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- But his lameness? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- We could not go fast, because of their lameness; and they were so spent, that two or three times we had to halt while they rested. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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