sufficiencen.
/səˈfɪʃəns/ archaic.† 2. Capacity; ability; competence. Also, a capable or competent person. Obsolete.† 3. That which suffices for one's needs; satisfaction of one's needs; sustenance. Obsolete.† 4. = self-sufficience n. Obsolete.
1. † b. phr. (Sc.) at or to sufficience (= French à suffisance): in sufficient quantity, sufficiently. in sufficience: in comfort. Obsolete.
a. The quality or condition of being sufficient or enough; sufficient supply, means, or resources.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > [noun]
fillc893
enoughOE
no lack (of)c1305
sufficiencec1380
suffisancec1381
suffisance1390
sufficienta1450
sufficienty1450
sufficient1470
store1471
sufficientlyc1485
sufficiency1531
satiety1569
strength1593
competence1600
sufficiency1608
competency1616
quantum sufficit1693
quantum suff.1763
adequacy1790
quant. suff.1799
critical mass1947
c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. II. 44 Siþ alle þingis is bifore Crist, þis sufficience lastiþ longe.
a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 73 If we be bisi for to gete us tresoure in heuene, God schal send us sufficiens in erde.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 169 Quho thinkis that he hes sufficience Off gudis hes no indigence.
1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke i. cxv. 27 b If it [sc. the Nile] increse unto the depth of twelue or thurtene Cubites it portendeth lacke of Sufficience.
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 57 Thinkand gif they saiffit thame selffis they had suffiecence quhill ane better fortoun.
1695 Ld. Preston tr. Boethius Consol. Philos. (1712) iii. pr. ii. 109 That they may have Sufficiences and Abundance within themselves.
1873 J. Morley Rousseau II. 113 This full and perfect sufficience of life was abruptly disturbed.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > (in) sufficient amount or degree [phrase]
at or to sufficiencec1430
sufficiently enough1556
q.s.a1662
quantum sufficit1699
quantum suff.1796
quant. suff.1821
the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > physical comfort > [adverb]
softOE
at likinga1398
commodiously1420
beinly?a1500
at home1531
in sufficiencec1550
softly1567
snugly1590
easefully1611
comfortably1634
cosily1721
lown1724
snug1766
lownly1788
tosh1808
comfily1917
c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) i. lxxxiii. 48 Now needeth it thanne quod sapience that fulfillinge to sufficience thow fynde it.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xi. l. 551 Off nolt and scheip thai tuk at sufficiens.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) x. l. 480 Ȝon folk has fud, trast weill, at sufficians.
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 705 He wes richt weill sustenit,..At sufficience that neidfull wes to haif, With sic prouisioun that that armet [= hermit] had.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) iii. 21 Ȝe sal eyt ȝour breyde in suficiens.
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the world > action or operation > ability > [noun] > competence, fitness, or ability
sufficiencec1384
suffisance1426
opportunity1535
qualification1561
sufficiency1567
fitness1574
qualifiedness1675
adequacy1779
competence1790
competency1797
locus standi1822
the world > action or operation > ability > [noun] > competence, fitness, or ability > one who
sufficience1609
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Cor. iii. 5 Not that we ben sufficient for to thenke ony thing of vs, as of vs, but oure sufficience is of God.
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 201 The chiefe cite of whom is callede Capua, namede so of the capacite of sufficiaunce.
1609 S. Rowlands Famous Hist. Guy Earle of Warwick Ep. Ded. These Artless Lines, which in the silence of greater sufficiences, serve only to keep Valour from Oblivious destruction.
1670 A. Marvell Let. 26 Feb. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 98 They are the judges of the sufficience of the securityes.
1676 A. Marvell Let. Jan. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 288 [He] is very well known for his sufficience & integrity.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > enough to satisfy want or desire
fillc893
fulla1225
fillinga1400
sufficiencec1450
bellyful1535
stakinga1595
wameful1722
skinful1897
c1450 Mankind 731 in Macro Plays 27 Wepynge, sythynge, & sobbynge, were my suffycyens.
1578 Bk. Christian Prayers in Private Prayers (1851) 513 Draw the soul, that thirsteth after thee, to the rivers of everlasting sufficience, which are above.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 15 This whereof wee treat they neede not, as finding all sufficience in their All-sufficient Creator.
1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 168 God is all sufficient, Gen. 17. 1. and giues sufficience to all his creatures.
1622 (?a1513) W. Dunbar Poems (Reidpeth) (1998) I. 243 With gredines I sie this world ourgane, And sufficience dwellis nocht bot in heavin.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > independence > [noun] > self-sufficiency
sufficiencec1384
suffisancea1450
self-sufficiency1598
autarky1617
self-dependencea1620
self-sufficience1623
self-subsistencea1631
self-support1632
self-fullness1668
self-reliance1668
self-dependency1749
self-sustainment1779
self-sustenance1786
self-sufficingness1811
substantiveness1821
self-sustentationa1832
self-containment1841
self-sufficientness1846
self-containing1850
self-supportedness1862
rugged individualism1898
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Cor. ix. 8 To make al grace abounde in ȝou, that ȝe in alle thingis euermore hauynge al sufficience.
1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I i. i. 4 God contemplating himself beholds in his Divine Essence or Sufficience.
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