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Word Meanings - DISQUALIFICATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of disqualifying, or state of being disqualified; want of qualification; incompetency; disability; as, the disqualification of men for holding certain offices. 2. That which disqualifies; that which incapacitates or makes unfit; as,

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1. The act of disqualifying, or state of being disqualified; want of qualification; incompetency; disability; as, the disqualification of men for holding certain offices. 2. That which disqualifies; that which incapacitates or makes unfit; as, conviction of crime is a disqualification of a person for office; sickness is a disqualification for labor. I must still retain the consciousness of those disqualifications which you have been pleased to overlook. Sir J. Shore.

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  • DISABILITY
    1. State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness, and the like. Grossest faults, or disabilities to perform what was covenanted. Milton. Chatham refused to see
  • WEAKNESS
    1. The quality or state of being weak; want of strength or firmness; lack of vigor; want of resolution or of moral strength; feebleness. 2. That which is a mark of lack of strength or resolution; a fault; a defect. Many take pleasure in spreading
  • INCAPACITY
    Want of legal ability or competency to do, give, transmit, or receive something; inability; disqualification; as, the inacapacity of minors to make binding contracts, etc. Syn. -- Inability; incapability; incompetency; unfitness; disqualification;
  • FORFEITURE
    1. The act of forfeiting; the loss of some right, privilege, estate, honor, office, or effects, by an offense, crime, breach of condition, or other act. Under pain of foreiture of the said goods. Hakluyt. 2. That which is forfeited; a penalty;
  • DISQUALIFICATION
    1. The act of disqualifying, or state of being disqualified; want of qualification; incompetency; disability; as, the disqualification of men for holding certain offices. 2. That which disqualifies; that which incapacitates or makes unfit; as,
  • IMPOTENCE; IMPOTENCY
    Want of procreative power; inability to copulate, or beget children; also, sometimes, sterility; barrenness. (more info) 1. The quality or condition of being impotent; want of strength or power, animal, intellectual, or moral; weakness; feebleness;
  • INCOMPETENCE; INCOMPETENCY
    Want of competency or legal fitness; incapacity; disqualification, as of a person to be heard as a witness, or to act as a juror, or of a judge to try a cause. Syn. -- Inability; insufficiency; inadequacy; disqualification; incapability; unfitness.

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