Careful Words

wanting (adj.)

  Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

Old Testament: Daniel v. 27.

He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen,

Let him not know 't, and he's not robb'd at all.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Othello. Act iii. Sc. 3.

The vision and the faculty divine;

Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): The Excursion. Book i.