unsoundness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

UNSOUND'NESS, noun 1. Defectiveness; as the unsoundness of timber. 2. Defectiveness of faith; want of orthodoxy. 3. Corruptness; want of solidity; as the unsoundness of principles. 4. Defectiveness; as the unsoundness of fruit. 5. Infirmity; weakness; as of body; as the unsoundness of the body or constitution.
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