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† inˈsuffisance Obs.
[a. F. insuffisance (1337 in Godef. Compl.), f. insuffisant: see next and -ance; cf. insufficience.]
= insufficience 1; personal unfitness or incompetency.
1387–8T. Usk Test. Love i. ix. (Skeat) l. 14 To declare that thy insuffisaunce is no maner letting. c1400Mandeville (1839) xxxi. 315 For myn unable insuffisance now I am comen Hom (mawgree my self) to reste. 1502Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W. 1506) iv. vii. 186 That he may supplye the insuffysaunce of his confessoure. |