"Defect" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
The want or absence of some legal requisite; deficiency; Imperfection; insufficiency. Haney-Campbell Co. v. Creamery
To fail; to become deficient.
Failing; fault; imperfection, whether physical or moral;
blemish; as, a defect in the ear or eye; a defect in timber or iron; a
defect of memory or judgment.
Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or
perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity.
To injure; to damage.
One of the hardest-to-swallow, most countercultural, counter intuitive implications of the gospel is that bearing up under a difficult burden with patient perseverance is a good thing.
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A college student in a philosophy class was taking his first examination. On the paper there was a single line which simply said: "Is this a question?" - Discuss. After a short time he wrote: "If that is a question, then this is an answer." The student received an "A" on the exam. A Boston brokerage house advertised for a "young Harvard graduate or the equivalent." Among the inquiries received was one from a Yale grad. He said, "Do you mean two Princeton men, or a Yale man part time?"
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