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sufficing, ppl. a.|səˈfaɪsɪŋ|
[f. suffice v. + -ing2.]
That suffices for a purpose or object; sufficient, adequate, satisfying. (Cf. all-sufficing, quot. 1623 s.v. all- 7, self-sufficing ppl. a.)
1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. iv. xiv. 117 Draw thy sword, and giue mee, Suffising strokes for death. a1640Wotton in Farr S.P. Jas. I (1848) 248 Nor shrubs alone feel thy sufficing hand. 1642Milton Apol. Smect. Wks. 1851 III. 255, I had no fear but that the authors of Smectymnuus..were prepar'd..to returne a suffizing answer. 1827Scott Highl. Widow ii, The death of MacTavish Mhor was, in her apprehension, a sufficing reason. 1860Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. cii. III. 4 And if the representation was such as to send sufficing men to parliament, it would be known which. 1905E. Clodd Animism §7. 41 The sufficing materials for belief in an entity in the body, but not of it.
Hence suˈfficingly adv., so as to suffice; suˈfficingness, sufficiency (cf. self-sufficingness).
1821Examiner 316/2 [She] is consequently more sufficingly suited to the various demands of the character. 1841L. Hunt Seer (1864) ii. 3 Beautiful present sufficingness of a cat's imagination! |