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n. - The quality of not being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally; Lack of potential for development.

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  • Adjective : As an administrator, he is simply incapable
  • The orator who has once seen things in their divine order will never quite lose sight of this, and will come to affairs as from a higher ground, and, though he will say nothing...
  • This arduous path, demanding and exciting, made up of continuous conquests and relativations of human knowledge, brings the intelligent creature toward the threshold of the...
  • As the master overpowered the littleness and incapableness of the performers and made them conductors of his electricity, so it was easy to observe what efforts nature...
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