Lexicographical Neighbors of Incompetences
Literary usage of Incompetences
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle (1883)
"... and incompetences elsewhere!' She had calculated on being indispensable, on
the score of the books, and was taking, since soon after my return from ..."
2. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1891)
"... the depths of our souls and waiting for it as they that wait for the morning
This intensity of our want makes us intolerant of the old incompetences and ..."
3. Literary Studies by Walter Bagehot (1879)
"... criticising feebly—and with little effect, perhaps, except the disorganising
effect of seeming ill- nature—the various incompetences and miscarriages of ..."
4. Contemplations, Moral and Divine by Matthew Hale, Caleb Sprague Henry (1835)
"... therefore for knowledge, there are these incompetences in it, in reference to
our happiness : 1. Our knowledge is very little and narrow in respect of ..."
5. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1858)
"... because all commercially interested parties should know the mechanical
incompetences of the present systems of marine propulsion, before they can aspire ..."
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