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Word Meanings - DELINQUENCY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Failure or omission of duty; a fault; a misdeed; an offense; a misdemeanor; a crime. The delinquencies of the little commonwealth would be represented in the most glaring colors. Motley.

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  • MISDEMEAN
    To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self.
  • ABSENCE
    1. A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence. Not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence. Phil. ii. 12. 2. Want; destitution; withdrawal. "In the absence of conventional law."
  • MISDESERT
    Ill desert. Spenser.
  • DEFECTIONIST
    One who advocates or encourages defection.
  • DEFECTUOSITY
    Great imperfection. W. Montagu.
  • DEFECTIBILITY
    Deficiency; imperfection. Ld. Digby. Jer. Taylor.
  • PECCADILLO
    A slight trespass or offense; a petty crime or fault. Sir W. Scott.
  • MISDERIVE
    1. To turn or divert improperly; to misdirect. Bp. Hall. 2. To derive erroneously.
  • DERELICTION
    A retiring of the sea, occasioning a change of high-water mark, whereby land is gained. (more info) 1. The act of leaving with an intention not to reclaim or resume; an utter forsaking abandonment. Cession or dereliction, actual or tacit, of other
  • DEFECTIVE
    Lacking some of the usual forms of declension or conjugation; as, a defective noun or verb. -- De*fect"ive*ly, adv. -- De*fect"ive*ness, n. (more info) 1. Wanting in something; incomplete; lacking a part; deficient; imperfect; faulty; -- applied
  • LAPSE
    1. To let slip; to permit to devolve on another; to allow to pass. An appeal may be deserted by the appellant's lapsing the term of law. Ayliffe. 2. To surprise in a fault or error; hence, to surprise or catch, as an offender. For which, if be
  • MISCONDUCT
    Wrong conduct; bad behavior; mismanagement. Addison. Syn. -- Misbehavior; misdemeanor; mismanagement; misdeed; delinquency; offense.
  • MISDEAL
    The act of misdealing; a wrong distribution of cards to the players.
  • MISDOING
    A wrong done; a fault or crime; an offense; as, it was my misdoing.
  • TRESPASS
    1. Any injury or offence done to another. I you forgive all wholly this trespass. Chaucer. If ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. Matt. vi. 15. 2. Any voluntary transgression of the moral law;
  • MISBEHAVIOR
    Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct. Addison.
  • MISDEMPT
    of Misdeem. Spenser.
  • LAPSED
    1. Having slipped downward, backward, or away; having lost position, privilege, etc., by neglect; -- restricted to figurative uses. Once more I will renew His lapsed powers, though forfeit. Milton. 2. Ineffectual, void, or forfeited; as, a lapsed
  • MISDESCRIBE
    To describe wrongly.
  • MISDOUBT
    To be suspicious of; to have suspicion. I do not misdoubt my wife. Shak.
  • INDEFECTIBLE
    Not defectible; unfailing; not liable to defect, failure, or decay. An indefectible treasure in the heavens. Barrow. A state of indefectible virtue and happiness. S. Clarke.
  • PROLAPSE
    The falling down of a part through the orifice with which it is naturally connected, especially of the uterus or the rectum. Dunglison.
  • DELAPSE
    To pass down by inheritance; to lapse. Which Anne derived alone the right, before all other, Of the delapsed crown from Philip. Drayton.
  • RELAPSER
    One who relapses. Bp. Hall.
  • ELAPSE
    To slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; -- used chiefly in reference to time. Eight days elapsed; at length a pilgrim came. Hoole.

 

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