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slack of
b. With various constructions, esp. in with gerund or noun, and to with infinitive. Also †slack of, short of (quot. 1608).
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the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > unsuccessful [phrase] > shortcoming
short of or from1560
slack of1608
c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 100 Se ðe on oðrum dagum sleac wære to godnysse.
c1000 in Anglia (1889) 11 117 Handa mine..synd..sleace to ænig wyrcenne god.
1535 T. Starkey Let. ?Aug. in Eng. in Reign Henry VIII (1878) i. p. xxiv I perceyue you haue byn slakker in wrytyng bycause you mor lokyd for ferther instructyon.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Eccl. v. 4 Yf thou make a vowe vnto God, be not slacke to perfourme it.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear iii. 9 If you come slacke of former seruices, You shall doe well, the fault of it ile answere. View more context for this quotation
1681 H. More Plain Expos. Daniel (1782) ii. 97 Thy purged eye will see God is not slack..to fulfil his word.
1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. vi. 96 Neither the King, nor the Parliament, being slack in pursuing the business by the Sword.
1753 G. Washington Jrnl. in Writings (1889) I. 33 The French were not slack in their Inventions to keep the Indians this Day also.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth iv, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 94 The sturdy armourer was not..slack in keeping the appointment.
1867 S. Smiles Huguenots Eng. & Ireland vii. 169 Louis was not slack in obeying the injunction.
1870 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 2) I. App. 694 Florence..was not slack at attributing crimes to Eadric.
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