Existing in English from the eighteenth century.[1] Borrowed fromFrenchmanqué, past participle form ofmanquer(“tolack, to be lacking in”).
manqué (notcomparable)
- (postpositive)[1]Unfulfilled due to the vagary of circumstance, someinherent flaw or aconstitutionallack.
1848 November –1850 December,William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter XXXVII, inThe History of Pendennis. […], volume II, London:Bradbury and Evans, […], published1850,→OCLC,page356:“[…] and all things considered, I don't much regret that this affair with Miss Amory ismanquée, though I wished for it once—in fact, all things considered, I am very glad of it.”
1866,Charles Reade, chapter VI, inGriffith Gaunt, or Jealousy, Boston: Ticknor and Fields,page38, column 1: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 Amazonmanquée.
1975, D. Hockney, W. Harper, B. Freed,Contemporary Research in Philosophical Logic and Linguistic Semantics, Springer,,→ISBN, page78:The four possible combinations of values can be namedTruth andFalsity (with capital initials) andtruth-manqué andfalsity-manqué (with lower-case initials).
1988, Bernard Schwartz,The Unpublished Opinions of the Burger Court, Oxford University Press,,→ISBN, page83:Roe v.Wade (1973): How a Legal LandmarkManqué Became a Constitutional Cause Célèbre
1992, Irene Masing-Delic,Abolishing Death: A Salvation Myth of Russian Twentieth-Century Literature, Stanford University Press,→ISBN, page78:Perhaps there was a feeling of moral triumph over a celebrated man, who was a noble manmanqué because of his character flaws, whereas Fyodorov was a noblemanmanqué for purely biological and social reasons, his illegitimacy.
1994, C. Fred. Alford,Group Psychology and Political Theory, Yale University Press,,→ISBN, page156:Over the course of several hundred years, the individual spread throughout Europe. So too, says Oakeshott, did the individualmanqué, one who feared his freedom and sought to return to the comfort and order of communal life.
1997, Harm Jan Habing, Henny J. G. L. M. Lamers, editors,Planetary Nebulae: Symposium No. 180, International Astronomical Union, Kluwer Academic Publishers,→ISBN, page441: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.
1997, Isaac Levi,The Covenant of Reason: Rationality and the Commitments of Thought, Cambridge University Press,→ISBN, page65:[…] 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.
2023 November 5, Andrew Anthony, “Monsters of the road: what should the UK do about SUVs?”, inThe Guardian[1],→ISSN:But after the 1980s, such cars and their imitators – both off-road and off-roadmanqués – made increasing incursions into the urban market, a cramped environment in the UK of narrow streets with limited opportunities to hunt wild game.
- This adjective usually retains many grammatical features from French, usedpostpositively and taking the formsmanquée whenmodifying afeminine noun,manqués for a plural noun, andmanquées for a feminine plural noun; as such, it is consciously regarded as a French term amidst English ones, and so occurs disproportionately more often in French contexts.
- Like most words which are spelled with diacritics,manqué is sometimes written without itsacute accent asmanque.
- ↑1.01.1TheConcise Oxford English Dictionary [Eleventh Edition]
manqué
- first-personsingularindefinitepreteriteindicative ofmancar
manqué (femininemanquée,masculine pluralmanqués,feminine pluralmanquées)
- pastparticiple ofmanquer
manqué (femininemanquée,masculine pluralmanqués,feminine pluralmanquées)
- missed;failed
- unactemanqué ―a Freudian slip
- une occasionmanquée ―amissed opportunity
- un rendez-vousmanqué ―(please add an English translation of this usage example)
- ungarçonmanqué ―a tomboy
- unefillemanquée ―a tomgirl
manqué
- first-personsingularpreteriteindicative ofmancar
