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Meanings of inaptitude in английском

A lack of aptitude.

Usage of inaptitude in английском
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In proportion as man is remote from cultivation, the greater is his mental inaptitude.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
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A certain innate scepticism, I think, explains it and a certain inaptitude for sympathetic assimilation.
Tono-Bungay
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The beautiful laws of time and space, once dislocated by our inaptitude, are holes and dens.
Essays — First Series
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His greatest admirers admit his lack of judgment, his inaptitude for the management of practical matters.
Old Portraits and Modern Sketches / Part 1 from Volume VI of The...
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The only result of these experiments was the demonstration of Heine's total inaptitude for commercial pursuits.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
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The Welsh, too, share, it seems to me, with their Saxon invaders, an inaptitude for show and spectacle.
Celtic Literature
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The other cause that tempts me out to these journeys is, inaptitude for the present manners in our state.
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 17
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Chopin's inaptitude in writing for the orchestra is, however, most conspicuous where he employs it conjointly with the pianoforte.
Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 1
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Obesity produces a distaste for dancing, walking, riding, and an inaptitude for those amusements which require skill or agility.
The Physiology of Taste; Or, Transcendental Gastronomy
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Music: church, 306; inaptitude for, 361; great composers, 401.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
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Our young student looked offended, and muttered something about the inaptitude of the English for a deep theosophy and philosophy.
The Eclipse of Faith; Or, A Visit to a Religious Sceptic
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At the age of eleven he was sent to a notary's office, whence he was dismissed for dullness and inaptitude.
The Eve of the French Revolution
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There was an inaptitude in her niece to comprehend the advantages of the situations, which made some direct explanation absolutely necessary.
He Knew He Was Right
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It will strive-mineat least will-'spiteof its inaptitude, to thrid the maze; like an unskilled eye painfully poring upon hieroglyphics.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 / Elia and The Las...
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Mozart sets comic words to the mass-music of a friend, in order to mark his sense of its inaptitude for religious sentiment.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series
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Mrs. Barfield was puzzled by her pupil's slowness; she ascribed it to her own inaptitude to teach and the little time for lessons.
Esther Waters
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