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Webster 1828 Edition
Unsoundness
UNSOUND'NESS
, n.1.
Defectiveness; as the unsoundness of timber.2.
Defectiveness of faith; want of orthodoxy.3.
Corruptness; want of solidity; as the unsoundness of principles.4.
Defectiveness; as the unsoundness of fruit.5.
Infirmity; weakness; as of body; as the unsoundness of the body or constitution.Definition 2024
unsoundness
unsoundness
English
Noun
unsoundness (countable and uncountable, plural unsoundnesses)
- The state of being unsound.
- 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids
- Most likely he was accounting for that by the bias my job might be expected to give – aggravated by a phobia resulting from my recent sting – and he was wondering whether it might connote other, perhaps less harmless, unsoundnesses.
- 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids