defectibility

English

Alternative forms

defectability

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.

References

• “defectibility”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.