manqué
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒŋkeɪ/
ipa: /mɑnˈkeɪ/
ipa: /mɑŋˈkeɪ/
Etymology: Existing in English from the eighteenth century. Borrowed from French manqué, past participle form of manquer (“to lack, to be lacking in”).
Senses: examples: text: “[…] and all things considered, I don't much regret that this affair with Miss Amory is manquée, though I wished for it once—in fact, all things considered, I am very glad of it.”
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter XXXVII, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume II, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 356:
text: The rivals now were but rival nurses; and never did a lot of women make more fuss over a child than all these bloodthirsty men did over this Amazon manquée.
ref: 1866, Charles Reade, chapter VI, in Griffith Gaunt, or Jealousy, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, page 38, column 1:
text: The four possible combinations of values can be named Truth and Falsity (with capital initials) and truth-manqué and falsity-manqué (with lower-case initials).
ref: 1975, D. Hockney, W. Harper, B. Freed, Contemporary Research in Philosophical Logic and Linguistic Semantics, Springer,, →ISBN, page 78:
text: Roe v. Wade (1973): How a Legal Landmark Manqué Became a Constitutional Cause Célèbre
ref: 1988, Bernard Schwartz, The Unpublished Opinions of the Burger Court, Oxford University Press,, →ISBN, page 83:
text: Perhaps there was a feeling of moral triumph over a celebrated man, who was a noble man manqué because of his character flaws, whereas Fyodorov was a nobleman manqué for purely biological and social reasons, his illegitimacy.
ref: 1992, Irene Masing-Delic, Abolishing Death: A Salvation Myth of Russian Twentieth-Century Literature, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 78:
text: Over the course of several hundred years, the individual spread throughout Europe. So too, says Oakeshott, did the individual manqué, one who feared his freedom and sought to return to the comfort and order of communal life.
ref: 1994, C. Fred. Alford, Group Psychology and Political Theory, Yale University Press,, →ISBN, page 156:
text: The H-HB and AGB-manqué stars of high metallicity (say Z>0.07) which are expected to be present albeit in small percentages in the stellar content of bulges and elliptical galaxies in general.
ref: 1997, Harm Jan Habing, Henny J. G. L. M. Lamers, editors, Planetary Nebulae: Symposium No. 180, International Astronomical Union, Kluwer Academic Publishers, →ISBN, page 441:
text: […] even with this charitable construal, the logic of consistency specifying what a rational agent ought to fully believe to be ideally consistent remains S5 and, hence, different from the S5-manqué logic of truth. […] Weakening the logic of consistency to S5-manqué while keeping the S5-manqué logic of truth intact is not workable.
ref: 1997, Isaac Levi, The Covenant of Reason: Rationality and the Commitments of Thought, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 65:
text: But after the 1980s, such cars and their imitators – both off-road and off-road manqués – made increasing incursions into the urban market, a cramped environment in the UK of narrow streets with limited opportunities to hunt wild game.
ref: 2023 November 5, Andrew Anthony, “Monsters of the road: what should the UK do about SUVs?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Unfulfilled due to the vagary of circumstance, some inherent flaw or a constitutional lack.
Coordinate terms: english: modifying plural
translation: modifying plural
word: manqués
english: modifying feminine
translation: modifying feminine
word: manquée
Derived terms: meningocele manqué