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insufficience Now rare.|ɪnsəˈfɪʃəns|
Also 5 -ens.
[a. OF. insufficience (14th c., Oresme), ad. late L. insufficientia: see next and -ence. Cf. insuffisance.]
†1. Of a person: = insufficiency 1. Obs.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 5 To comprehende the knowledge of whom oure insufficience [L. modicitas] sufficethe not. 1460J. Capgrave Chron. (Rolls) 147 The Pope..anulled the eleccion of the bischop for insufficiens. 1521Bradshaw's St. Werburge 1st Bal. Author 11 Whiche knowe full well myn insufficience. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. i. i. 16. 1672 Baxter Bagshaw's Scand. ii. 19, I doubt whether they would not reject him for utter Ignorance and insufficience. a1797H. Walpole Mem. Geo. II (1847) III. i. 17 He had heard of his own all-sufficience; he knew our insufficience.
2. Of a thing: = insufficiency 2. Now rare.
1486Surtees Misc. (1888) 54 Gyve not your eye Oonely to this citie of insufficience. 1597Compl. Buik D. Wedderburne (Scot. Hist. Soc.) 98 Becaus of the insufficience of tua barrellis salmond he sauld me. 1623in N. Shaks. Soc. Trans. (1885) 499 Benifitt of excepcion to thuncertainties and all other thimperfeccions and insufficiences of the said bill. a1711Ken Hymnotheo Wks. 1721 III. 259 While I the World, and thee, my God, compare, I nothing find but insufficience there. 1882Mind Apr. 294 Another defect which partly explains the insufficience of his Psychology. |