† insuffisancen.
Obsolete.
= insufficience n. 1; personal unfitness or incompetency.
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the world > action or operation > ability > inability > [noun] > for what is required > personal
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c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xxxi. 315 For myn unable insuffisance now I am comen Hom (mawgree my self) to reste.
1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) iv. vii. sig. s.vi v That he may supply the in suffysaunce [sic] of his confessour.
1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer i. f. cccxxxiiii To declare yt thy insuffysance is no maner letting.
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