α. a. 1325. Prose Ps. cxxxviii. 15. Þyn eȝen sen myn vnparfitnes.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), I. 5. Art, sciens and lawe al were i-falle,… but þe mercy of God had i-ordyned vs of lettres in remedie of vnparfiȝtnesse of mankynde.
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., III. xi. 349. As he which ofte and miche synned, and as he which knewe his vnperfitnes.
a. 1568. Ascham, Scholem., II. (Arb.), 144. Cicero him selfe doth complaine of this vnperfitnes, but more plainly Quintilian.
β. 1543. Necessary Doctrine, e ii. These workes … for as moch as they be done in the faith of Christe,… theyr vnperfectnes is supplied.
1548. Cranmer, Catech., 220 b. Althoughe he doth oftentimes ouercome sinne, yet this is a great vnperfectenes, yt he dothe it not willingly.
1625. Donne, Serm., 669. If there had not been unbeliefe, weaknesse, unperfectnesse in that Faith.
1661. Rust, Origen’s Opin., 72. Seeing what … was likely to be the lot of some of them from the necessary unperfectness of their Natures.
1900. Mary Kingsley, Mem., in G. H. Kingsley, Sp. & Trav., vii. 193. In the very unperfectness of that specimen.
