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Want of veracity.

Want of verisimilitude or likelihood; improbability.

these organs had deceptious functions. Shak. Such reasoning falls like an inverted cone, Wanting its proper base to stand upon. Cowper.

Want of vigilance; neglect of watching; carelessness.

Want of vision or of the power of seeing. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Heartiness; earnestness. What was wanted was more inwardness, more feeling. M. Arnold.

Want of reconciliation; disagreement.

Want of reflection.

The quality or state of being irrelative; want of connection or relation.

The state of being irreligious; want of religion; impiety.

Indicating a want of religion; profane; wicked; as, irreligious speech.

Want of repentance; impenitence. Bp. Montagu.

Want of resolution; want of decision in purpose; a fluctuation of mind, as in doubt, or between hope and fear; irresoluteness; indecision; vacillation. Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all unhappiness. Addison.…

Want of, or freedom from, responsibility or accountability.

Want of retaining power; forgetfulness. De Quincey.

The state or quality of being irreverent; want of proper reverence; disregard of the authority and character of a superior.

Not reverent; showing a want of reverence; expressive of a want of veneration; as, an irreverent babbler; an irreverent jest.

A light, giddy, or wanton girl or woman. See Gill-flirt.

p and strike the beam; -- said of the lighter arm of a loaded balance; hence, to be found wanting in weight. Milton. -- To kick the bucket, to lose one's life; to die. [Colloq. & Low]

more; as, the men were entirely knocked up. [Colloq.] "The day being exceedingly hot, the want of food had knocked up my followers." Petherick. (c) (Bookbinding) To make even at the edges, or to shape into book form, as printed sheets.