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inapplication|ɪnæplɪˈkeɪʃən|
[in-3. Cf. F. inapplication (1718 in Dict. Acad.).]
1. Want of application; the fact or habit of not applying oneself to one's duties.
1721Bailey, Inapplication, heedlesness. 1755Johnson, Inapplication, indolence, negligence. a1797H. Walpole Mem. Geo. II (1847) II. viii. 259 The Prince excused his own inapplication on the foot of idleness. 1800W. Taylor in Robberds Mem. I. 330 Inapplication, versatility, are, I suppose, the dangers of a mind like Henry's.
2. The condition of not applying or having no application to the case; inapplicability.
1784J. Barry in Lect. Paint. iii. (1848) 146 These rules..appear to me to be very inconclusive, and much out of their place, when thus applied to prescribed forms..Besides their utter inapplication, these multiplied little rules seem [etc.]. |