sufficience

English

Etymology

From Old French sufficience, from Late Latin sufficientia.

Noun

sufficience (countable and uncountable, plural sufficiences)

(obsolete) The condition or quality of being sufficient; sufficiency.
(obsolete) Capability; competence.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: […] Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
  , I.42:
  He speaketh of the sufficience of the minde and of internall qualities.

Synonyms

sufficiency

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