Meanings
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of unperform
- not comparableThat does not perform.
He could see no great harm in the present pretenders to magic, if the poor people would but keep their money in their pockets; and that they should have their pockets picked by such an unperforming, unmeaning, ignorant crew as these are, is the only magic De Foe could see in the whole science.
1841, George Chalmers, Daniel Defoe, The Novels and Miscellaneous Works, page 84
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