inadequateness
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I remember another, whom every muse inspired, skilful alike with the pencil and the pen, and by whom both were almost contemned for their inadequateness, in the height and scope of her aims.
From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I by Margaret Fuller
He was burdened by an overwhelming sense of clumsy inadequateness, and though he knew he could do nothing he asked anyway, "Can I do anything for you?"
From The Lost Wagon by James Arthur Kjelgaard
The acquiescence for so many centuries in the power of the great directing organisation of Western Europe, notwithstanding its intellectual inadequateness, was the decisive expression of that rejection.
From Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) by John Morley
It does not apply to a will which is infected with inadequateness of self expression.
From Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" by Friedrich Engels
One point, however, should be observed in any inquiry into the reasons for the inadequateness of these ages' feeling for nature; that many latent sympathies may never have found a voice.
From Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature by Edward Tompkins McLaughlin
