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noun

Sufficiency n.

The quality or state of being sufficient, or adequate to the end proposed; adequacy. "His sufficiency is such that he bestows and possesses, his plenty being unexhausted."

Qualification for any purpose; ability; capacity. "A substitute or most allowed sufficiency." "I am not so confident of my own sufficiency as not willingly to admit the counsel of others."

Adequate substance or means; competence. "An elegant sufficiency."

Supply equal to wants; ample stock or fund.

Conceit; self-confidence; self-sufficiency. "Sufficiency is a compound of vanity and ignorance."

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Etymology of 'Sufficiency'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... a nurse crop, it may be not only proper, but advantageous, to pasture it. The grazing should not, however, be continued so late that the plants will not have time to make a sufficiency of growth to protect them in winter. Such grazing is better adapted to areas in which the season of growth is long, rather than short; where weed growth is abundant, as on certain of the soils of the prairie, it may be necessary to call in the ...

— Clovers and How to Grow Them • Thomas Shaw

... been rich, but there had been a feeling of sufficiency. They had had comfortable quarters, pretty clothes, delightful holiday journeys, a reasonable amount of gaiety, and, over and beyond all, the advantages of an excellent education. Claire's happy nature remembered her benefits, and made short work of ...

— The Independence of Claire • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... Mediterranean to India, from the Euxine and Caspian Seas to Arabia and the Persian Gulf—a monstrous empire, whose possession was calculated to inflame the monarchs who reigned at Susa and Babylon with more than mortal pride and self-sufficiency. It had been gradually won by successive conquerors, from Nimrod to Darius. It was the gradual absorption of all the kingdoms of the East in the successive Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian empires—for these ...

— Ancient States and Empires • John Lord

... subsequently, and arrived at Rome; and sleep came over the inhabitants of Rome, so that Patrick brought away a sufficiency of the relics. These relics were afterwards taken to Ard-Macha with the consent of God and with the consent ...

— The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick - Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings • Various

... she had now a standard of comparison that it was so apparent. He was tall and well-favored, and he moved with a jaunty yet not ungraceful swing; but it seemed to her that his bearing was merely the result of an empty self-sufficiency. There was, she felt, no force behind it. Gregory was smiling, and there was certainly a hint of sensuality in his face which suggested that the man might sink into a self-indulgent coarseness. Agatha remembered that ...

— Masters of the Wheat-Lands • Harold Bindloss

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