Definition of Defect

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Defect

Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity.

Failing; fault; imperfection, whether physical or moral; blemish; as, a defect in the ear or eye; a defect in timber or iron; a defect of memory or judgment.

To fail; to become deficient.

To injure; to damage.

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Defect Quotations

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
C. S. Lewis

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
Lao Tzu

The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
Jonathan Swift

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.
John Calvin

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
Saint Teresa of Avila

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
Benjamin Disraeli

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Bertrand Russell

There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.
Herman Melville

Defect Translations

defect in German is defekt
defect in Norwegian is mangel, hoppe av, feil
defect in Spanish is defecto, vicio, defectuoso
defect in Swedish is fel, felaktighet, lyte

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