Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Insufficiency.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Insufficiency.
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- noun Obsolete form of
insufficiency .
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Examples
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Who in processe for the insufficience of the fruictes of the earthe, (whiche she tho gaue vntilled) and for default of other thynges, ganne falle at disquiete and debate emong themselues, and to auoied the inuasion of beastes, and menne of straunge borders,
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We will give you sleepy drinks, that your senses, unintelligent of our insufficience, may, though they cannot praise us, as little accuse us.
The Winter’s Tale 2004
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The immensity of the task, the insufficience of the means stand in striking contrast.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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Gloucester as well as Theocritus and Horace; he is seriously perturbed at the decline of agriculture in Devonshire; in spite of the fertility of the soil, he says, it yields insufficience of bread, beer, and victual, to feed itself, for which the country has to have recourse to
Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland F. J. Widgery
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We will give you sleepy drinks, that your senses, unintelligent of our insufficience, may, though they cannot praise us, as little accuse us.
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Which of the popes was it, who being chosen for his insufficience, said,
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757
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I have several other excellent reasons against our success, though I could combat them with as many drawn from the insufficience of the present folk, and the propriety of Mr. Pitt being minister; but I am too tired, and very likely so are you, my dear lord, by this time, and therefore good night!
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3 Horace Walpole 1757
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After several councils, it was determined, that all the cabinet councillors should severally declare the insufficience and prevarication of
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757
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St. John therefore did not invent the story of Lazarus from a sense of the insufficience of the former: for if he had invented, he would have related not only a history of a person dead much longer than the other, (as I shewed just now) but the person to be the subject of his miracle would have been a stranger, and a rabby, a ruler, or
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For if he had had a design of forging a miracle, from a sense of the insufficience of the former, he would have made it prodigiously or vastly greater than these, which he has not done.
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