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Definition of Defect
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

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

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.
Mason Cooley

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

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

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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