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Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Want of apprehension.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Lack of apprehension.

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  • noun rare Failure to notice; failure to be aware of; lack of apprehension.

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Examples

  • She in fact appears to be indicating that her harsh criticism of the inapprehension of ordinary humans, resulting from their exclusive reliance on the senses, has been designed to keep Parmenides firmly planted on the first way of inquiry.

    Parmenides Palmer, John 2008

  • These, like the over-largely lettered signs and placards of the street, escape observation by dint of being excessively obvious; and here the physical oversight is precisely analogous with the moral inapprehension by which the intellect suffers to pass unnoticed those considerations which are too obtrusively and too palpably self-evident.

    The Purloined Letter 2006

  • Though I could not doubt the certainty of this intelligence, I believed there was some inapprehension in the case; and, without taking any notice of it, told Mr. Marmozet the answer I had been favoured with; and he promised to ask Mr. Vandal the question proposed.

    The Adventures of Roderick Random 2004

  • These, like the over-largely lettered signs and placards of the street, escape observation by dint of being excessively obvious; and here the physical oversight is precisely analogous with the moral inapprehension by which the intellect suffers to pass unnoticed those considerations which are too obtrusively and too palpably self-evident.

    The Short-story William Patterson Atkinson

  • These, like the over-largely lettered signs and placards of the street, escape observation by dint of being excessively obvious; and here the physical oversight is precisely analogous with the moral inapprehension by which the intellect suffers to pass unnoticed those considerations which are too obtrusively and too palpably self-evident.

    Selections from Poe J. Montgomery Gambrill

  • Dimly, through a fog of disinterested inapprehension, I realized that -- with the exception of the _plantons_ and, of course,

    The Enormous Room 1928

  • These, like the over-largely lettered signs and placards of the streets, escape observation by dint of being excessively obvious; and here the physical oversight is precisely analogous with the moral inapprehension by which the intellect suffers to pass unnoticed those considerations which are too obtrusively and too palpably self-evident.

    The Purloined Letter 1917

  • He paled a little, and sucked his lip, his eyes wandering to the girl, who stood in stolid inapprehension of what was being said.

    Saint Martin's Summer Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • He stared at her a moment in blank inapprehension; then a deep blush came burning into his face.

    Mary Wollaston Henry Kitchell Webster 1903

  • These, like the over-largely lettered signs and placards of the street, escape observation by dint of being excessively obvious; and here the physical oversight is precisely analogous with the moral inapprehension by which the intellect suffers to pass unnoticed those considerations which are too obtrusively and too palpably self-evident.

    Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Detective Stories Joseph Lewis French 1897

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