- (n.) The quality or state of being incompetent; want of physical, intellectual or moral ability; insufficiency; inadequacy; as, the incompetency of a child hard labor or of an idiot for intellectual efforts.
- (n.) Want of competency or legal fitness; incapacity; disqualification, as of a person to be heard as a witness or to act as a juror or of a judge to try a cause.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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