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Webster 1913 Edition
Failing
Fail′ing
,Noun.
1.
A failing short; a becoming deficient; failure; deficiency; imperfection; weakness; lapse; fault; infirmity;
as, a mental
. failing
And ever in her mind she cast about
For that unnoticed
For that unnoticed
failing
in herself. Tennyson.
Syn. – See
Fault
. Webster 1828 Edition
Failing
FA'ILING
,ppr.
FA'ILING
,Noun.
1.
The act of failing; deficiency; imperfection; lapse; fault. Failings, in a moral sense, are minor faults, proceeding rather from weakness of intellect or from carelessness, than from bad motives. But the word is often abusively applied to vices of a grosser kind.2.
The act of failing or becoming insolvent.Definition 2024
failing
failing
English
Verb
failing
- present participle of fail
Noun
failing (plural failings)
Translations
defect
Preposition
failing
- if the preferred or prior option is not possible
- A large proportion of the females employed in other firms are said to have signified their intention of going on strike, failing a settlement.
Translations
if the preferred or prior option is not possible
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