omnisufficiency

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noun

The condition of being omnisufficient.

Scrabble 30

Meanings

nounomnisufficiency (uncountable)

alternative omnisufficience

  1. uncountableThe condition of being omnisufficient.

    ‘Agrippa was reputed ... a demi-god in omnisufficiency of knowledge ’.

    1910, Mckerrow B. Ronald, The Works of Thomas Nashe, Volume IV, Hippolyte Bailliere, page 310
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    Beloved in him, whose kingdom, and Gospel you seek to advance, in this plantation, our Lord and Saviour Christ Jesus, if you seek to establish a temporal kingdom there, you are not rectified, if you seek to be kings in either acceptation of the word ; to be a king signifies liberty and independency, and supremacy, to be under no man, and to be a king signifies abundance, and Omnisufficiency to need no man.

    1839, John Donne, The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life, John W. Parker, page 229

    In p. 20 seq. Harvey's words (connive wink), cosmologised and smirked (recreated), omnisufficiency, enthusiastical (rich), entelechy (capacity), are jeered at. In the Address to the Eeaders, pp. 25, 27, he has been "two or three years" at this book, ever since the hanging of Lopus (condemned 29th Feb. 1594).

    1891, Frederick Gard Fleay, A Biographical Chronicle of the English Drama, 1559-1642, Reeves & Turner, pages 140-141

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