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Unsoundness

noun
1.
A condition of damage or decay.
2.
A misconception that is fallacious and not true or valid.
3.
Not mentally or physically healthy.



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"Unsoundness" Quotes from Famous Books



... a burning zealot as Pius V. This Pope, in his new regulations for the maintenance of Church discipline, requisitioned the services of physicians in the detection of laxity of religious practices, or of unsoundness. "We forbid," he says in one of his bulls, "every physician, who may be called to the bedside of a patient, to visit for more than three days, unless he receives an attestation that the sick man has made fresh confession of his sins."[228] Cardan, with his irritable ...
— Jerome Cardan - A Biographical Study • William George Waters
... detected me in an untenable position—checked me—and in her artless manner, laid bare the fallacy of an inconsiderate assertion. In an instant I was aware of my conviction, I retracted my expression, and involved myself immediately in fresh dilemma. Again, and as gently as before, she made the unsoundness of a principle evident and glaring. How I closed the argument—the conversation and the interview—and escaped from her, I know not. Burning with shame, despising myself, and desirous of burying both my disgrace and self deep in the earth, where both ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 - Vol. 53, January, 1843 • Various


Words linked to "Unsoundness" :   badness, status, misconception, condition, bad, decay, disrepair, unsound, soundness, mental unsoundness


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