unfitness

Example Sentences

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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

"Unfitness" in this connection must not be interpreted too narrowly.

From Applied Eugenics by Popenoe, Paul

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

Until that later evolution of female adaptation to Unfitness, in the sacrificial function of Lactation, inhibiting and tempering the earlier male trend, engendered the yet higher order of Mammalia.

From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella