Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for UN-APT'NESS
UN-APT'NESS, n.
- Unfitness; unsuitableness. Spenser.
- Dullness; want of quick apprehension. Shak.
- Unreadiness; disqualification; want of propension. The mind, by excess of exertion, gets an unaptness to vigorous attempts. Locke.
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