Definition for UN-APT'NESS

UN-APT'NESS, n.

  1. Unfitness; unsuitableness. Spenser.
  2. Dullness; want of quick apprehension. Shak.
  3. Unreadiness; disqualification; want of propension. The mind, by excess of exertion, gets an unaptness to vigorous attempts. Locke.

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