inadequateness

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Its imperfection or inadequateness in size and method I knew, but for the writing part of it, I was fully satisfied.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)

New ideas and new 'experiments in living' would not arise, if there were not a certain inadequateness in existing ideas and ways of living.

From On Compromise by Morley, John

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 Morley, John

She—perhaps McTeague as well—felt that there was a certain inadequateness about the ceremony.

From McTeague by Norris, Frank

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 Fuller, Margaret