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TO A FAULT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does to a fault mean? 

TO A FAULT (adverb)
  The adverb TO A FAULT has 1 sense:

1. to a degree exceeding normal or proper limitsplay

  Familiarity information: TO A FAULT used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TO A FAULT (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

To a degree exceeding normal or proper limits

Synonyms:

excessively; overly; to a fault; too

Context example:

too big


 Context examples 


Selina, who is mild almost to a fault, bore with them much better.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Grace has, on the whole, proved a good keeper; though, owing partly to a fault of her own, of which it appears nothing can cure her, and which is incident to her harassing profession, her vigilance has been more than once lulled and baffled.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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