Hypertext Webster Gateway: "disqualification"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Disqualification \Dis*qual`i*fi*ca"tion\, n.
1. The act of disqualifying, or state of being disqualified;
want of qualification; incompetency; disability; as, the
disqualification of men for holding certain offices.
2. That which disqualifies; that which incapacitates or makes
unfit; as, conviction of crime is a disqualification of a
person for office; sickness is a disqualification for
labor.
I must still retain the consciousness of those
disqualifications which you have been pleased to
overlook. --Sir J.
Shore.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
disqualification
n 1: unfitness that bars you from participation
2: the act of preventing someone from participating by finding
them unqualified
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