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efficience Obs. or arch.|ɛˈfɪʃəns|
[ad. L. efficientia, noun of quality f. efficiens: see efficient and -ence.]
1. The exercise of efficient power; causative or productive activity.
1669Gale Crt. Gentiles i. iii. iii. 37 The first piece of this Divine efficience is..referred to the Divine Ideas. a1680J. Corbet Free Actions i. §1 God's Efficience is concern'd in the Event decreed. 1794Mrs. Piozzi Synon. I. 319 The surprising efficience of two bodies..to produce a third unknown before.
2. Effectiveness, efficacy.
1865Sir J. K. James Tasso xii. xxviii, Do thou for her with such efficience pray. |