Word Meanings - FAILANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Fault; failure; omission. Bp. Fell.

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• FAULTINESS
  Quality or state of being faulty. Round, even to faultiness. Shak.
• FAULT
  A lost scent; act of losing the scent. Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled, With much ado, the cold fault cleary out. Shak. (more info) falta), fr. a verb meaning to want, fail, freq., fr. L. fallere to 1. Defect; want;
• FAULTING
  The state or condition of being faulted; the process by which a fault is produced.
• FAULT-FINDING
  The act of finding fault or blaming; -- used derogatively. Also Adj.
• OMISSION
  1. The act of omitting; neglect or failure to do something required by propriety or duty. The most natural division of all offenses is into those of omission and those of commission. Addison. 2. That which is omitted or is left undone.
• FAILURE
  1. Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops. 2. Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise. 3. Want of success; the state of having failed. 4. Decau, or defect from decay;
• FAULTLESS
  Without fault; not defective or imperfect; free from blemish; free from incorrectness, vice, or offense; perfect; as, a faultless poem. Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. Pope. Syn.
• FAULTFUL
  Full of faults or sins. Shak.
• FAULTY
  1. Containing faults, blemishes, or defects; imperfect; not fit for the use intended. Created once So goodly and erect, though faulty since. Milton. 2. Guilty of a fault, or of faults; hence, blamable; worthy of censure. Shak. The king doth speak
• FAULT-FINDER
  One who makes a practice off discovering others' faults and censuring them; a scold.
• FAULTILY
  In a faulty manner.
• FAULTER
  One who commits a fault. Behold the faulter here in sight. Fairfax.
• PICK-FAULT
  One who seeks out faults.
• DEFAILURE
  Failure. Barrow.
• FINDFAULTING
  Apt to censure or cavil; faultfinding; captious. Whitlock.
• FINDFAULT
  A censurer or caviler.
• DEFAULTER
  1. One who makes default; one who fails to appear in court when court when called. 2. One who fails to perform a duty; a delinquent; particularly, one who fails to account for public money intrusted to his care; a peculator; a defalcator.
• INTROMISSION
  An intermeddling with the affairs of another, either on legal grounds or without authority. (more info) 1. The act of sending in or of putting in; insertion. South. 2. The act of letting go in; admission.
• DEFAULT
  A neglect of, or failure to take, some step necessary to secure the benefit of law, as a failure to appear in court at a day assigned, especially of the defendant in a suit when called to make answer; also of jurors, witnesses, etc. In default of,