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Qualification

QUALIFICA'TION, n.
1. Any natural endowment or any acquirement which fits a person for a place, office or employment, or enables him to sustain any character with success. Integrity and talents should be considered as indispensable qualifications for men entrusted with public affairs; but private interest and party-spirit will often dispense with these and all other qualifications.
There is no qualification for government but virtue and wisdom, actual or presumptive.
2. Legal power or requisite; as the qualifications of electors.
3. Abatement; diminution.
4. Modification; restriction; limitation. words or expressions may be used in a general sense, without any qualification.

 

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