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  • 41Negligence — • The omission, whether habitual or not, of the care required for the performance of duties, or at any rate, for their full adequate discharge. Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Negligence     Negligence …

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  • 42Prudence — • One of the four cardinal virtues Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Prudence     Prudence     † …

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  • 43Solomon — • The second son of David by his wife Bathsheba, and the acknowledged favourite of his father Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Solomon     Solomon      …

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  • 44St. Columbanus —     St. Columbanus     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► St. Columbanus     Abbot of Luxeuil and Bobbio, born in West Leinster, Ireland, in 543; died at Bobbio, Italy, 21 November, 615.     His life was written by Jonas, an Italian monk of the Columban… …

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  • 45Thomas Cardinal Wolsey —     Thomas Wolsey     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Thomas Wolsey     Cardinal, Archbishop of York, b. at Ipswitch, the usually accepted date, 1471, being probably three or four years too early; d. at Leicester Abbey, 29 November, 1530. His father,… …

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  • 46Tiro Prosper of Aquitaine —     Tiro Prosper of Aquitaine     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Tiro Prosper of Aquitaine     The first sure date in the life of Prosper is that of his letter to St. Augustine written under the following circumstances. In 428 or 429 a certain Hilary… …

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  • 47culpability — I noun blame, blameworthiness, censurableness, chargeableness, criminality, delinquency, dereliction, failure in duty, fault, guilt, guiltiness, improbity, misbehavior, misconduct, misdoing, peccability, peccancy, remissness, reprehensibility,… …

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  • 48dereliction — der·e·lic·tion /ˌder ə lik shən/ n 1 a: an intentional abandonment b: a state of being abandoned 2: a recession of water leaving permanently dry land 3: an intentional or conscious neglect derelictio …

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  • 49laches — la·ches / la chəz, lā , shəz/ n pl laches [Anglo French lachesce laschesce negligence, from Old French lasche lax, ultimately from Latin laxare to loosen, from laxus slack] 1: undue delay in asserting a right or privilege compare statute of… …

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  • 50negligence — neg·li·gence / ne gli jəns/ n: failure to exercise the degree of care expected of a person of ordinary prudence in like circumstances in protecting others from a foreseeable and unreasonable risk of harm in a particular situation; also: conduct… …

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