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# failing

noun (failings)

«failing» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A failing is a fault or weakness in a person's character or behaviour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/failing/#m1)

### In the lessons

in tales a hero or king has failings like pride or greed; in the lessons it names a weakness, not a sin

### Examples

- Everyone has some failings. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/failing/#x1)
- Pride was his greatest failing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/failing/#x2)
- Be kind about the failings of others. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/failing/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## In Jewish tradition

Here it means a wasting away or weakening, as of the eyes growing dim from longing.

**Interpretation.** The tradition reads this as one of the curses in the Torah's warning to Israel, describing the fear and sorrow of exile.

### Examples

- And among these nations shalt thou have no repose, and there shall be no rest for the sole of thy foot; but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and languishing of soul. (Torah DEU.28.65, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/failing/#x1)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «failing» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/failing/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«failing» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/failing.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «failing» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/failing/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«failing» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/failing.html) on Mova free.