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Disablement

noun

The condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness. Synonyms: disability, handicap, impairment. "Hearing impairment"

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"Disablement" Quotes from Famous Books

... to study the conditions of modern industrialism at its sources, and my disablement did but a little accelerate a return already decided upon. I had got my conception of the East as a whole and of the shape of the historical process. I no longer felt adrift in a formless chaos of forces. I perceived now very clearly that human life is essentially a creative struggle out of ...

— The Passionate Friends • Herbert George Wells

... inability, disability; disablement, impuissance, imbecility; incapacity, incapability; inaptitude, ineptitude, incompetence, unproductivity^; indocility^; invalidity, disqualification; inefficiency, wastefulness. telum imbelle [Lat.], brutum fulmen [Lat.], blank, blank cartridge, flash in the pan, vox et proeterea ...

— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... the same moment a passionate rebellion against weakness and disablement arose in him. He sat up dizzily, ...

— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... and doing a great deal of its organization. Our men in the trenches, in the air, at sea, endure for us what we would have said before the war was humanly unendurable. They pay for our freedom with a great price—and we send them out to pay it—in death, disablement, suffering and sacrifice. To fail in our duty behind them would ...

— Women and War Work • Helen Fraser

... therefore, after the fatal shot into the boiler, and the subsequent disablement and drifting on to the sandbank, all repairing work had to be done under full exposure to the fire of the mutineers. The Central African negro is a fairly stolid person, and as the sight of a little slaughter does not in the least upset his nerves, he can stand bullet ...

— A Master of Fortune • Cutcliffe Hyne

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