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unˈsoundness
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1. The quality of being physically or materially unsound. Also fig.
1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1605) V 2 b, The bond of common feare, is the strongest indeed of all other,..and the daunger once past falles in sunder of his owne vnsoundnesse. 1614Latham Falconry ii. i. 79 When through our disorder..we haue wrought their [sc. hawks'] vnsoundnes, we forget to looke backe. 1763Mills Pract. Husb. III. 449 If these [livers] were livid or corrupted, they offered others, as the unsoundness of the first might be owing to some casual distemper. 1820Starkie Rep. Cases N.P. II. 81 If a horse be affected by any malady which renders him less serviceable for a permanency, I have no doubt that it is an unsoundness. 1860Tyndall Glac. ii. xix. 333 The unsoundness of ice at and near its melting point. 1880Encycl. Brit. XII. 189/2 A pimple on the body where the saddle would cover it is an unsoundness in a hunter while it lasts. Ibid., A temporary cough is also an unsoundness.
b. Unwholesomeness.
1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 370 A Colony..displanted for the unsoundnesse of the ayre.
2. The quality of being unsound in belief, opinion, principles, etc.
1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxii. §6 By reason of vnsoundnes in the highest articles of Christian faith. 1641Milton Animadv. 20 They need not carry such an unworthy suspicion over the Preachers of Gods word, as to tutor their unsoundnesse with the Abcie of a Liturgy. 1680S. Mather Iren. 3 Fundamental unsoundness and Corruption of Judgment. 1769J. Gill Body Pract. Divinity ii. ii. 302 They..agree to differ..and not charge one another with unsoundness and heterodoxy. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. II. xvii. 259 It was not uncommon formerly to suspect every one who professed to pursue the light of nature, of unsoundness of principles. 1841[Mrs. Mozley] Lost Brooch II. 71 Every sermon of his betrays his unsoundness. 1877Smith & Wace's Dict. Chr. Biog. I. 11/2 The breach was widened by mutual accusations of unsoundness in the faith.
b. Of doctrine, principles, etc.
1586Hooker Answ. Travers §6 Any thing that shalbe spoken concerning the vnsoundnes of my Doctrine. 1607Stat. in Hist. Wakefield Gram. Sch. (1892) 61 The unsoundnes of his or theire religion. 1712Addison Spect. No. 507 ⁋6 The Unsoundness of this Principle..is..universally acknowledged. 1844H. H. Wilson Brit. India I. 551 The unsoundness of the conclusion..might inspire a reasonable distrust of the correctness of the persuasions. 1881Westcott & Hort Grk. Test. Introd. §93 The presumed unsoundness of the text.
3. The quality of being mentally unsound.
1825Macaulay Ess., Milton ⁋14 Perhaps no person can be a poet..without a certain unsoundness of mind. 1856J. W. H. Williams (title), On Unsoundness of Mind, in its medical and legal considerations. 1884Law Rep. 27 Ch. Div. 119 The soundness or unsoundness of mind of the alleged lunatic. |