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† omnisuˈfficiency Obs. rare. [f. as next + -ency.] The quality of being ‘omnisufficient’; all-sufficiency.
1577Fulke Confut. Purg. 97 Wilt thou neuer acknowledge the omnisufficiency of the benefite of mans redemption by the sonne of God? 1622Donne Serm. xvi. 156 To find an Omnisufficiency in ourselves is an Intrusion, an Usurpation upon God. [1876Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. 142 Amid the pedantic farrago of his [J. Harvey's] omni-sufficiency (to borrow one of his own words) we come suddenly upon passages whose..purity of diction reminds us of Landor. ] |