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Word Meanings - NONEXECUTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Neglect or failure of execution; nonperformance.

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  • NEGLECT
    disregard, neglect, the literal sense prob. neing, not to pick up; nec not, nor (fr. ne not + -que, a particle akin to Goth. -h, -uh, and prob. to E. who; cf. Goth. nih nor) + L. legere to pick up, 1. Not to attend to with due care or attention;
  • EXECUTIONER
    1. One who executes; an executer. Bacon. 2. One who puts to death in conformity to legal warrant, as a hangman.
  • NEGLECTION
    The state of being negligent; negligence. Shak.
  • FAILURE
    1. Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops. 2. Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise. 3. Want of success; the state of having failed. 4. Decau, or defect from decay;
  • NEGLECTFUL
    Full of neglect; heedless; careless; negligent; inattentive; indifferent. Pope. A cold and neglectful countenance. Locke. Though the Romans had no great genius for trade, yet they were not entirely neglectful of it. Arbuthnot. -- Neg*lect"ful*ly,
  • NEGLECTEDNESS
    The state of being neglected.
  • NEGLECTER
    One who neglects. South.
  • NEGLECTINGLY
    Carelessly; heedlessly. Shak.
  • NEGLECTIVE
    Neglectful. "Neglective of their own children." Fuller.
  • NONPERFORMANCE
    Neglect or failure to perform.
  • EXECUTION
    1. The act of executing; a carrying into effect or to completion; performance; achievement; consummation; as, the execution of a plan, a work, etc. The excellence of the subject contributed much to the happiness of the execution. Dryden.
  • MALEXECUTION
    Bad execution. D. Webster.
  • SELF-NEGLECTING
    A neglecting of one's self, or of one's own interests. Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting. Shak.
  • DEFAILURE
    Failure. Barrow.
  • NONEXECUTION
    Neglect or failure of execution; nonperformance.
  • INEXECUTION
    Neglect of execution; nonperformance; as, the inexecution of a treaty. Spence.

 

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