KJV Dictionary - fault
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FAULT
FAULT, n. See Fail.
1. Properly, an erring or missing; a failing; hence, an error or mistake; a blunder; a defect; a blemish; whatever impairs excellence; applied to things.
2. In morals or deportment, any error or defect; an imperfection; any deviation from propriety; a slight offense; a neglect of duty or propriety, resulting from inattention or want of prudence, rather than from design to injure or offend, but liable to censure or objection.
I do remember my faults this day. Gen. 41.
If a man be overtaken in a fault, ye who are spiritual, restore such as one in the spirit of meekness. Gal. 6.
Fault implies wrong, and often some degree of criminality.
3. Defect; want; absence. Not now used. See Default.
I could tell to thee, as to one if pleases me, for fault of a better to call my friend.
4. Puzzle; difficulty.
Among sportsmen, when dogs lose the scent, they are said to be at fault. Hence the phrase, the inquirer is at fault.
5. In mining, a fissure in strata, causing a dislocation of the same, and thus interrupting the course of veins.
To find fault, to express blame; to complain.
Thou wilt say then, why doth he yet find fault? Rom 9.
To find fault with, to blame; to censure; as, to find fault with the times, or with a neighbor's conduct.
FAULT, v.i. To fail; to be wrong. Not used.
FAULT, v.t. To charge with a fault; to accuse.
For that I will not fault thee.
Definition from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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