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Failure   /fˈeɪljər/   Listen
noun
Failure  n.  
1.
Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops.
2.
Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise.
3.
Want of success; the state of having failed.
4.
Decay, or defect from decay; deterioration; as, the failure of memory or of sight.
5.
A becoming insolvent; bankruptcy; suspension of payment; as, failure in business.
6.
A failing; a slight fault. (Obs.)





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"Failure" Quotes from Famous Books



... productions might have been called forth, still it was impossible that such an extensive competition should not have been advantageous. Of all the different species of poetry the dramatic is the only one in which experience is necessary: and the failure of others is, for the man of talents, an experiment at their expense. Moreover, the exercise of this art requires vigorous determination, to which the great artist is often the least inclined, as in the execution he finds the greatest difficulty in satisfying himself; while, on the other hand, ...
— Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature • August Wilhelm Schlegel
... gazing sadly after her and wondering if her failure here were her fault—if there was anything else she ought to have done—if she had let her personal dislike of the girl influence her conduct. She sat for some time at her desk, her chin in her hands, her eyes fixed on vacancy with a ...
— A Voice in the Wilderness • Grace Livingston Hill
... dream. It seemed to her that her father was in some inexplicable way meaner-looking than she had supposed, and yet also, as unaccountably, appealing. His tie had demanded a struggle; he ought to have taken a clean one after his first failure. Why was she noting things like this? Capes seemed self-possessed and elaborately genial and commonplace, but she knew him to be nervous by a little occasional clumsiness, by the faintest shadow of vulgarity ...
— Ann Veronica • H. G. Wells
... fishermen and townsfolk down still more narrowly to individuals. His landscape is always marvellously exact, the strokes selected with extraordinary skill ad hoc so as to show autumn rather than spring, failure rather than hope, the riddle of the painful earth rather than any joy of living. Attempts have been made to vindicate Crabbe from the charge of being a gloomy poet, but I cannot think them successful; I ...
— Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 • George Saintsbury
... the Metropolitan Museum Ethel looked very lovely. She wore a bunch of Tom's orchids and a grey velvet suit. Her eyes were bright and her cheeks were burning red. She was visibly excited. Tom saw that she felt her life had been a failure. ...
— Ethel Hollister's Second Summer as a Campfire Girl • Irene Elliott Benson


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