Meanings
nounsufficience (countable and uncountable, plural sufficiences)
plural sufficiences
- countableobsoleteuncountableThe condition or quality of being sufficient; sufficiency.
- countableobsoleteuncountableCapability; competence.
He speaketh of the sufficience of the minde and of internall qualities.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 42, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
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Origin
- Late Latinsufficientia
- Old Frenchsufficience
- Englishsufficience
From Old French sufficience, from Late Latin sufficientia.
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