Meanings
- uncountableFailure to execute or carry out.
His inexecution of orders baffled that effort.
1803, Thomas Jefferson, Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson2 more examples
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 PresidentsLegislatures, always cautious of attempting to force trade from its own channels and habits, should certainly be peculiarly cautious, when they do undertake such business, to set about it with temperance and coolness; but in this debate, we are told of the inexecution of a former treaty, withholding western posts, insults and dominations of a haughty people, that through the agency of Great Britain the savages are upon us on one side, and the Algerines on the other.
1926, John Marshall, The Life of George Washington, Vol. 5 (of 5)
Origin
Translations
Dutch niet-nakoming, tekortkoming
- niet-nakomingfailure to execute or carry out
- tekortkomingfailure to execute or carry out
Finnish toimimatta jättäminen
- toimimatta jättäminenfailure to execute or carry out
French inexécution
- inexécutionfailure to execute or carry out
Polish niewykonanie
- niewykonaniefailure to execute or carry out
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