Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for UN-SOUND'NESS
UN-SOUND'NESS, n.
- Defectiveness; as, the unsoundness of timber.
- Defectiveness of faith; want of orthodoxy. Hooker.
- Corruptness; want of solidity; as, the unsoundness oft principles. Hooker.
- Defectiveness; as, the unsoundness of fruit.
- Infirmity; weakness; as of body; as, the unsoundness of the body or constitution.
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