inadequateness
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A very simple observation would have sufficed to make the philosophers, antecedent to Newton, feel the inadequateness of the causes they admitted to operate with such powerful effect.
From The System of Nature, Volume 1 by Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'Holbach
He was burdened by an overwhelming sense of clumsy inadequateness, and though he knew he could do nothing he asked anyway, "Can I do anything for you?"
From The Lost Wagon by James Arthur Kjelgaard
I remember another, whom every muse inspired, skilful alike with the pencil and the pen, and by whom both were almost contemned for their inadequateness, in the height and scope of her aims.
From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I by Margaret Fuller
They may not point to the right mode of meeting inadequateness, but they do point to the existence and consciousness of it.
From On Compromise by John Morley
The acquiescence for so many centuries in the power of the great directing organisation of Western Europe, notwithstanding its intellectual inadequateness, was the decisive expression of that rejection.
From Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) by John Morley
