List of synonyms from "defeasance" to synonyms from "defector"
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Definition of the day : « defect »
- noun blemish, imperfection
- verb break from belief, faith
- Yet the manner, and the air, made up (as I intended they should) for that defect.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- What we imagine to be a superior perfection, may really be a defect.
- Extract from : « An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding » by David Hume
- Rousseau's Confessions has precisely this defect—he read it to his friends.
- Extract from : « A Hero of Our Time » by M. Y. Lermontov
- Most often a virtue presents itself side by side with a defect.
- Extract from : « Doctor Pascal » by Emile Zola
- Some defect in the latter may be excused, but not in the former.
- Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
- And we have admitted that justice is the excellence of the soul, and injustice the defect of the soul?
- Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
- This remedies the defect of our too great nearness to ourselves.
- Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Has he a defect of temper that unfits him to live in society?
- Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- His art is less for every deduction from his holiness, and less for every defect of common sense.
- Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Each of these elements in excess makes a mischief as hurtful as its defect.
- Extract from : « Essays, Second Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson