单词 | insufficience |
释义 | insufficiencen. Now rare. 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1464 |
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