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noun

Defect n.

Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; opposed to superfluity. "Errors have been corrected, and defects supplied."

Failing; fault; imperfection, whether physical or moral; blemish; as, a defect in the ear or eye; a defect in timber or iron; a defect of memory or judgment. "Trust not yourself; but, your defects to know, Make use of every friend and every foe." "Among boys little tenderness is shown to personal defects."

Synonyms: Deficiency; imperfection; blemish. See Fault.

verb

Defect v. t. To injure; to damage. "None can my life defect." (R.)

Defect v. i.

To fail; to become deficient. (Obs.) "Defected honor."

To abandon one country or faction, and join another.

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"Defect" Quotes from Famous Books

... the churches in England are serious, upright men, who would gladly lead if they could. Nor is it because they are voices uttering strange announcements in the wilderness; if they have a fault it is rather that they have so little to announce. The defect which is disclosed by the pictures given by "A Gentleman with a Duster" is primarily intellectual, and I propose to devote to its explanation the introduction which the publisher has asked me to write for the American ...

— Painted Windows - Studies in Religious Personality • Harold Begbie

... he become involved, and what was the final outcome? What defect in his character is it charged that his business relations brought to light (pp. ...

— Lady of the Lake • Sir Walter Scott

... Beaufort. Eb'ry step was worth a half-a-dollar." And they all marched as if it were so. They knew well that they were marching through throngs of officers and soldiers who had drilled as many months as we had drilled weeks, and whose eyes would readily spy out every defect. And I must say, that, on the whole, with a few trivial exceptions, those spectators behaved in a manly and courteous manner, and I do not care to write down all the handsome things that were said. Whether said or not, they ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 • Various

... twenty thousand pounds had been held out. But it had been held out only to the ships belonging to any of his majesty's subjects, exclusive of his majesty's own ships. The act had a still more capital defect. It held out this reward only to such ships as should discover a passage through Hudson's Bay; and, as we shall soon take occasion to explain, it was, by this time, pretty certain that no such passage existed within those limits. ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 15 (of 18) • Robert Kerr

... c'etait vrai. We still find ester, to stand ("Et ne pooit ester sur ses pieds," "He could not stand on his legs"). At present the French have no single word for "standing," which has often been pointed out as a real defect of the language. "To stand" is ester, in ...

— Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. • F. Max Mueller

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