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单词 insufficience
释义

insufficiencen.

/ɪnsəˈfɪʃəns/
Forms: Also Middle English -ens.
Etymology: < Old French insufficience (14th cent., Oresme), < late Latin insufficientia : see insufficiency n. and -ence suffix. Compare insuffisance n.
Now rare.
1. Of a person: = insufficiency n. 1. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > ability > inability > [noun] > for what is required > personal
insuffisancec1400
insufficiencea1464
unsuffisance1483
insufficienta1513
insufficiency1526
insufficientnessc1585
incompetencea1716
inadequacy1817
a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 116 Þe pope..anulled þe eleccion of þe bischop for insufficiens.
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 5 To comprehende the knowledge of whom oure insufficience [L. modicitas] sufficethe not.
1521 in H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge 1st balade sig. s.iiv Whiche knowe full well myn insufficience.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. i. 15 Vn-intelligent of our insufficience . View more context for this quotation
1672 R. Baxter Church told of Bagshaw's Scandals ii. 19 I doubt whether they would not reject him for utter Ignorance and insufficience.
a1797 H. Walpole Mem. George II (1847) III. i. 17 He had heard of his own all-sufficience; he knew our insufficience.
2. Of a thing: = insufficiency n. 2. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [noun]
unsuffisant1387
over-little?a1400
non-suffisantee1425
unsufficience1445
insufficience1486
insufficiency1531
faintness1543
non-sufficiency1584
non-sufficience1598
incompetence1663
the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > imperfection > [noun] > an imperfection > want or shortcoming
wanec888
waningc1320
brist1340
insufficience1486
insufficiency1531
want1553
deficiency1664
shortcominga1687
shortfall1895
1486 in Surtees Misc. (1888) 54 Gyve not your eye Oonely to this citie of insufficience.
1597 Compl. Buik D. Wedderburne (Scot. Hist. Soc.) 98 Becaus of the insufficience of tua barrellis salmond he sauld me.
1623 in N. Shaks. Soc. Trans. (1885) 499 Benifitt of excepcion to thuncertainties and all other thimperfeccions and insufficiences of the said bill.
a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo in Wks. (1721) III. 259 While I the World, and thee, my God, compare, I nothing find but insufficience there.
1882 Mind Apr. 294 Another defect which partly explains the insufficience of his Psychology.
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