inadequateness
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But what remains true is, that feeling the inadequateness of pagan philosophy, he returned for a moment towards Christianity.
From Saint Augustin by Vincent O'Sullivan
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
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 John Morley
Presently a strange sense of inadequateness came over him.
From The Cow Puncher by Robert J. C. Stead
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 E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
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