Definition of "faults" []

• Plural form of fault. (noun)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "-- _For_ introduces the subject phrase; the principal part of the entire phrase is _us to know our faults; _ the principal word is _us_, which is modified by the phrase _to know our faults_."
• "_Free from all faults_, or _faults from seeming free; that men were really good, or that their faults were known_, that men were free from faults, _or_ faults from _hypocrisy_."
• "The hopes, the fears, the sorrows, the joys, the very things which we call faults in men -- so strong and courageous are the old prophets in this fundamental faith of theirs that man and God are alike -- the very things we call faults in men are attributed to the"