defectibility

English

Noun

defectibility (countable and uncountable, plural defectibilities)

1. deficiency; imperfection
   • c. 1660, Henry Jeanes, letter to Jeremy Taylor

     opposed unto mutability and defectibility of being

   • 1638-1639, George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, letter to Kenelm Digby

     The sufficiency and perfection of Scripture having been been shewed, & likewise the defectibility of that kinde of tradition.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “defectibility”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)