inadequation

See also: inadéquation

English

Noun

inadequation (countable and uncountable, plural inadequations)

  1. (obsolete) Lack of exact correspondence.
    • 1679, Timothy Puller, The moderation of the Church of England:
      [T]his makes no breach of communion among us, the difference only arising from inadequation of languages […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “inadequation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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