Noun: lapse
| Singular | lapse |
| Plural | lapses |
Sample Sentences
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memory lapse
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lapse of judgment
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lapse in security
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lapse in concentration
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Now, tho’ this Scripture may be usefully understood and apply’d by us as a Caution to guard against those Lapses and Failings to which our Infirmities daily expose us [1735, John Rogers, Nineteen Sermons on several occasions, London: W. Innys and R. Manby, →OCLC, page 108:]
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The lapse to indolence is soft and imperceptible, because it is only a mere cessation of activity [1751 September 10, Samuel Johnson, “No. CLV”, in The Rambler, →OCLC:]
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Still onward winds the dreary way;
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I with it; for I long to prove
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No lapse of moons can canker Love,
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Whatever fickle tongues may say. [1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXVI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 43:]
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Bacon was content to wait the lapse of long centuries for his expected revenue of fame [1860, Isaac Taylor, Ultimate Civilization and Other Essays, London: Bell and Daldy, →OCLC, page 309:]
Nouns inflected like lapse
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle French laps, from Latin lāpsus, from lābī (“to slip”). Doublet of lapsus. See: Latin Nouns '
lāpsus'.
Verbs referencing "lapse"
English Nouns
lapsarian.