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inexecution

inexecution noun: failure to execute or carry out.

Noun

inexecution (uncountable)

  1. Failure to execute or carry out.
    • His inexecution of orders baffled that effort.1803, Thomas Jefferson, Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson
    • Very early after the arrival of a British minister here mutual explanations on the inexecution of the treaty of peace were entered into with that minister.1897, James D. Richardson, A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents

Origin of inexecution

From in- + execution.

Questions about inexecution

What does inexecution mean?
Inexecution means failure to execute or carry out.
What part of speech is inexecution?
Inexecution is a noun.

Words near inexecution in the dictionary

  1. inexcusableness
  2. inexcusably
  3. inexcuseable
  4. inexecrable
  5. inexecutable
  6. inexecution
  7. inexertion
  8. inexertions
  9. inexes
  10. inexhalable
  11. inexhausted

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