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- noun Absence of
success ;failure .
Etymologies
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Examples
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'' I'm always aware of my success or nonsuccess I have against teams, '' said Francis, who had a 15.12 ERA against the Phils this season.
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Not only must you say continuously I will succeed, I must succeed, for the consequences of nonsuccess are so substantial that nonsuccess should not be an option.
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` ` Mrs. Inglethorp is out, and he sits down to write to his accomplice, who, he fears, may be in a panic at the nonsuccess of their plan.
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They believed that a lack of reenforcements was responsible for their nonsuccess.
The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 12) Neuve Chapelle, Battle of Ypres, Przemysl, Mazurian Lakes Francis Trevelyan Miller 1902
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The words I had overheard bore no reference to Bartleby but to the success or nonsuccess of some candidate for the mayoralty.
Bartleby 1856
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We have decades of nonsuccess in acquisition reform if the goal is to deliver high-performance systems on time and on cost to support national security strategy.
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"Mrs. Inglethorp is out, and he sits down to write to his accomplice, who, he fears, may be in a panic at the nonsuccess of their plan.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles Agatha Christie 1933
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