unfitness

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The Times continued to editorialize against "Mr. Agnew's Unfitness," and even reprinted the original editorial when commenting on Agnew's rebuttal.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is certainly in our natural Capacities themselves, a Fitness for some Things, and Unfitness for others.

From 'Of Genius', in The Occasional Paper, and Preface to The Creation by Pahl, Gretchen Graf

One springs from the avoidance of inconvenient Unfitness: the second from the readiness of well-adjusted Liberality; the third from the natural Love for one's own Native Tongue.

From The Banquet (Il Convito) by Sayer, Elizabeth Price

The eternal Fitness and Unfitness of Things determine Justice, Equity, Goodness and Truth, and lay corresponding obligations upon reasonable creatures.

From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Bain, Alexander

Where lesser Fitness for survival on another's part had been signal for making such her prey, now Unfitness in the extremest degree claims her devotion and care.

From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella