Word Meanings - INAPPLICATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Want of application, attention, or diligence; negligence; indolence.
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- NEGLIGENCE
The quality or state of being negligent; lack of due diligence or care; omission of duty; habitual neglect; heedlessness. 2. An act or instance of negligence or carelessness. remarking his beauties, ... I must also point out his negligences and - DILIGENCE
Process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings. To do one's diligence, give diligence, use diligence, to exert one's self; to make interested - APPLICATION
1. The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. 2. The thing applied. He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched. Johnson. 3. The act of applying as a means; the - INDOLENCE
1. Freedom from that which pains, or harasses, as toil, care, grief, etc. I have ease, if it may not rather be called indolence. Bp. Hough. 2. The quality or condition of being indolent; inaction, or want of exertion of body or mind, proceeding - ATTENTION
1. The act or state of attending or heeding; the application of the mind to any object of sense, representation, or thought; notice; exclusive or special consideration; earnest consideration, thought, or regard; obedient or affectionate heed; the - REAPPLICATION
The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied. - NONATTENTION
Inattention. - INDILIGENCE
Want of diligence. B. Jonson. - MISAPPLICATION
A wrong application. Sir T. Browne. - INAPPLICATION
Want of application, attention, or diligence; negligence; indolence. - INATTENTION
Want of attention, or failure to pay attention; disregard; heedlessness; neglect. Novel lays attract our ravished ears; But old, the mind inattention hears. Pope. Syn. -- Inadvertence; heedlessness; negligence; carelessness; disregard; remissness;