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1,899 words match “TENT”

IMPENITENT a. 2 definitions

Not penitent; not repenting of sin; not contrite; of a hard heart. "They . . . died impenitent." Milton. "A careless and impenitent heart." Bp. Hall.

IMPENITENTLY adv.

Without repentance.

IMPOTENT a. 4 definitions

Not potent; wanting power, strength. or vigor. whether physical, intellectual, or moral; deficient in capacity; destitute of force; weak; feeble; infirm. There sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent inhis feet. Acts xiv. 8. O most lame and impotent conclusion! Shak. Not slow to hear, Nor impotent to save. Addison.…

IMPOTENTLY adv.

In an impotent manner.

Not turning the mind to a matter; heedless; careless; negligent; inattentive. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path. Cowper. -- In`ad*vert"ent*ly, adv.

Want of attention, or failure to pay attention; disregard; heedlessness; neglect. Novel lays attract our ravished ears; But old, the mind inattention hears. Pope.

Not attentive; not fixing the mind on an object; heedless; careless; negligent; regardless; as, an inattentive spectator or hearer; an inattentive habit. I. Watts.

INCOMPETENT a. 3 definitions

Not competent; wanting in adequate strength, power, capacity, means, qualifications, or the like; incapable; unable; inadequate; unfit. Incompetent to perform the duties of the place. Macaulay.

INCOMPETENTLY adv.

In an competent manner; inadequately; unsuitably.

INCONSISTENT a. 2 definitions

Not consistent; showing inconsistency; irreconcilable; discordant; at variance, esp. as regards character, sentiment, or action; incompatible; incongruous; contradictory.

INCONSISTENTLY adv.

In an inconsistent manner.

INCONSISTENTNESS n.

Inconsistency. [R.]

INCONTENTATION n.

Discontent. [Obs.] Goodwin.

INEXISTENT a. 2 definitions

Not having being; not existing.

INSISTENT a. 3 definitions

Standing or resting on something; as, an insistent wall. Sir H. Wotton.

INSISTENTLY adv.

In an insistent manner.

INTENT a. 3 definitions

Closely directed; strictly attentive; bent; -- said of the mind, thoughts, etc.; as, a mind intent on self-improvement.

Intention. [Obs.]

INTENTION n. 5 definitions

of the mind toward of the mind toward an object; closeness of application; fixedness of attention; earnestness. Intention is when the mind, with great earnestness, and of choice, fixes its view on any idea. Locke.

Done by intention or design; intended; designed; as, the act was intentional, not accidental.