sufficiencyn.

/səˈfɪʃənsi/

Forms: Also Middle English–1600s -encie, 1700s -entcy.

Etymology: < Latin sufficientia (see sufficience n. and -ency suffix). Compare Italian soffic(i)enza, -ia, Spanish suficiencia.

†1.

a. Sufficient means or wealth; ability or competence to meet pecuniary obligations. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > wealth > wealth or riches > [noun] > sufficient means

sufficiency1495

competent1574

competency1625

conveniencya1628

competencea1640

conveniencea1680

independency1747

independence1816

1495 Act 11 Hen. VII c. 24 §3 Iffe ther be not persones of suche sufficiencie within the Shire.

1601 F. Tate Househ. Ord. Edward II (1876) §1. 5 This stewarde shall be a man of good sufficiency.

1611 Bible (King James) Lev. v. 7 (margin) His hand cannot reach to the sufficiencie of a lambe.

1611 Bible (King James) Job xx. 22 In the fulnesse of his sufficiencie, he shalbe in straites.

1682 J. Scarlett Stile of Exchanges 48 The one as well as the other [viz. the drawer and the remitter], must be careful, and enquire into each others Sufficiency.

1747 Act 20 Geo. II c. 43 §36 The Clerk of Court shall be answerable for the Sufficiency of such Cautioner.

b. A sufficient supply; a competence.

ΘΚΠ

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

1608 D. Tuvill Ess. Politicke, & Morall f. 50^v The powerfull hand of irreprooueable wisdom, hath divided our sufficiencie into little portions.

1645 O. Cromwell Let. to W. Lenthall 14 Sept. (Carlyle) The same spirit of faith by which we ask all our sufficiency, and have received it.

1682 W. Penn Life in Wks. (1782) I. p. lxxx Let your industry..go no farther than for a sufficiency for life.

1744 J. Thomson Spring in Seasons (new ed.) 49 An elegant Sufficiency, Content, Retirement, rural Quiet.

1898 ‘H. S. Merriman’ Roden's Corner viii. 78 Holland suggests..an elderly gentleman..who, having laid by a small sufficiency, sits peaceably by the fire.

c. Adequate provision of food or bodily comfort.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > of food or bodily comfort

sufficiency1796

1796 C. Smith Marchmont I. 169 [He] could not afford to repair or to live in it [sc. the house] with any degree of comfortable sufficiency for years before his death.

1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. III. 139 She and her daughter..kept the house, which might vie with any nobleman's for true luxury; perfect sufficiency and neatness.

1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. iv. ii. §4. 256 There is..sufficiency everywhere when anciently there would have been scarcity in some places and superfluity in others.

2. The condition or quality of being sufficient for its purpose or for the end in view; adequacy.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > sufficiency in degree or quality

sufficiency1565

adequateness1650

adequacy1701

sufficingness1841

enoughness1871

1565 T. Stapleton tr. F. Staphylus Apologie 161 b The sufficiency of only faith to saluation.

1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Hay any Worke for Cooper 27 We know the sufficiencie of it [sc. a book] to be such, as the Puritans are not able to answere it.

c1650 W. Bradford Hist. Plymouth Plant. (1856) 75 Perceiveing y^e mariners to feare y^e suffisiencie of y^e shipe.

1661 S. Pepys Diary 15 July (1970) II. 136 I read over the Will and had their advice therein; who, as to the sufficiency thereof, confirmed me.

1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 116 The Competency or Sufficiency of an Ecclesiastical Benefice, ought to be considered..in respect of the..Charges incumbent on such a Benefice.

1755 E. Young Centaur i, in Wks. (1757) IV. 112 The sufficiency of human reason.

1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe II. viii. 452 Montuela calls him the model of commentators for the pertinence and sufficiency of his notes.

1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. iii. v. 658 Surveyors, who report on the sufficiency of river steam-vessels before they are entitled to ply for passengers.

1884 Law Rep.: Chancery Div. 27 630 There is a doubt about the sufficiency of the assets.

1912 Oxf. Univ. Gaz. 6 Nov. 149/1 The Board shall in writing report to the Regius Professor of Divinity as to the sufficiency of the Candidate's work.

3. (A) sufficient number or quantity of; enough.

ΘΚΠ

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

1531 W. Tyndale Expos. 1 John (1537) 88 We ought to aske of God only sufficyency of all worldly thynges.

1598 R. Barckley Disc. Felicitie of Man v. 476 That which bringeth foorth contentation, is a sufficiencie of things.

1623 J. Bingham tr. Xenophon Hist. 93 If we shall finde such sufficiencie of shipping, that not one of vs shall need to be left behinde.

1637 T. Jackson Treat. Signs Times 65 in Diverse Serm. The daily sacrifice of beasts did cease for want of provision, they having plenty, or sufficiency of nothing but of famine.

1747 J. Wesley Primitive Physick p. xvi There is sufficiency of other Medicines.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 106 When he has eaten a sufficiency, he then retires.

1832 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 2) II. xv. 244 So as to afford sufficiency of wood for fuel.

1859 K. Cornwallis Panorama New World I. 353 For practical mining purposes it contained no sufficiency of gold.

1901 T. J. Alldridge Sherbro xv. 145 None of the women wear any clothes, there is simply a sufficiency of strung beads around their waists.

a. Sufficient capacity to perform or undertake something; adequate qualification; ability, competency. Obsolete or archaic.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ability > [noun] > competence, fitness, or ability

sufficiencec1384

suffisance1426

opportunity1535

qualification1561

sufficiency1567

fitness1574

qualifiedness1675

adequacy1779

competence1790

competency1797

locus standi1822

1567 Reg. Privy Council Scott. 1st Ser. I. 539 The honestie, habilitie,..and sufficiency of oure said dearest brother to have the cure..of oure said..sone.

1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. H4^v Their knowledge, discresion, and sufficiencie in their art.

1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons (title page) The great sufficiencie, excellencie and wonderful effects of Archers.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. iii. 223 We haue there a substitute of most allowed sufficiency .

1627 G. Hakewill Apologie iii. v Well knowne in London for his Sufficiencie in his profession.

1700 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding (new ed.) ii. xxvii. 183 So able a Man as he, who had sufficiency enough to warrant all the Testimonies he gives of himself.

1786 E. Burke Articles of Charge against W. Hastings in Wks. (1842) II. 200 The nabob's sufficiency for the management of his own affairs.

1800 Marquess Wellesley Let. 5 Mar. in Select. Despatches (1877) 653 The state..has already supported them at a considerable expense, under the presumption of their sufficiency to discharge the duties.

1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt III. xli. 120 Their sufficiency to judge the men who make love to them.

†b. An instance of this; a qualification; also, an accomplishment. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [noun] > acquired skill > an accomplishment

quality1584

accomplishment1586

sufficiency1590

complement1592

virtuea1600

enduement1609

preparationa1616

completion1662

qualification1699

accompliment1705

1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons Ded. To set foorthe and beautifie their owne sufficiencies.

1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love i. iv. sig. C2 I feare I may doe wrong to your sufficiencies in the reporting them.

1616 B. Jonson Poëtaster (rev. ed.) i. ii, in Wks. I. 281 It shall neuer put thee to thy Mathematiques, Metaphysiques, Philosophie, and I know not what suppos'd sufficiencies.

1635 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Eliz. (ed. 3) iii. 254 The..Privy Councell, taking notice of his sufficiencies, made use of his counsaile.

1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 85 By recommendations made to the King of his great sufficiencies in..Oratory.

1713 R. Steele Guardian No. 13. ⁋4 One may have an air, which proceeds from a just sufficiency and knowledge of the matter before him.

†5. = self-sufficiency n. 1a. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > nature or attributes of God > [noun] > self-sufficiency

self-sufficiency1598

self-sufficience1623

sufficiency1635

self-fullness1668

1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi iii. §1. 48 God..whose sufficiencie and efficiencie is altogether absolute.

6. = self-sufficiency n. 3. archaic.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > excessive self-confidence > [noun]

overtrust?c1225

self-witc1425

self-trust1526

self-wisdom1571

self-assurance1595

confidence1599

self-confidence1604

self-security1606

self-sufficiencya1617

sufficiency1638

self-wittedness1647

self-trusting1658

self-poise1774

suffisance1781

cock-surety1819

disinvolturac1847

cocksureness1878

cocksureism1889

1638 F. Rous Heavenly Acad. ix. 135 They thought their own eyes sufficient to see, and their own eares to heare; and resting in this insufficient sufficiencie [etc.].

1690 W. Temple Ess. Anc. & Mod. Learning 3, in Miscellanea: 2nd Pt. I could not read either of this Strain, without some indignation, which no quality among men is so apt to raise in me as sufficiency, the worst composition out of the pride and ignorance of mankind.

1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Moralists i. ii. 26 I cou'd never have the Sufficiency to shock my Spiritual and Learned Superiours.

1734 tr. C. Rollin Method Teaching & Studying Belles Lettres (1773) I. 280 By this air of sufficiency they think they gain the esteem of others, though they only procure their contempt.

1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona viii. 89 Who effer heard of such suffeeciency as tell a shentlemans that is the king's officer he cannae speak Cot's English?

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	sufficiency
释义	sufficiencyn. /səˈfɪʃənsi/ Forms: Also Middle English–1600s -encie, 1700s -entcy. Etymology: < Latin sufficientia (see sufficience n. and -ency suffix). Compare Italian soffic(i)enza, -ia, Spanish suficiencia. †1. a. Sufficient means or wealth; ability or competence to meet pecuniary obligations. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > wealth > wealth or riches > [noun] > sufficient means sufficiency1495 competent1574 competency1625 conveniencya1628 competencea1640 conveniencea1680 independency1747 independence1816 1495 Act 11 Hen. VII c. 24 §3 Iffe ther be not persones of suche sufficiencie within the Shire. 1601 F. Tate Househ. Ord. Edward II (1876) §1. 5 This stewarde shall be a man of good sufficiency. 1611 Bible (King James) Lev. v. 7 (margin) His hand cannot reach to the sufficiencie of a lambe. 1611 Bible (King James) Job xx. 22 In the fulnesse of his sufficiencie, he shalbe in straites. View more context for this quotation 1682 J. Scarlett Stile of Exchanges 48 The one as well as the other [viz. the drawer and the remitter], must be careful, and enquire into each others Sufficiency. 1747 Act 20 Geo. II c. 43 §36 The Clerk of Court shall be answerable for the Sufficiency of such Cautioner. b. A sufficient supply; a competence. ΘΚΠ 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 1608 D. Tuvill Ess. Politicke, & Morall f. 50^v The powerfull hand of irreprooueable wisdom, hath divided our sufficiencie into little portions. 1645 O. Cromwell Let. to W. Lenthall 14 Sept. (Carlyle) The same spirit of faith by which we ask all our sufficiency, and have received it. 1682 W. Penn Life in Wks. (1782) I. p. lxxx Let your industry..go no farther than for a sufficiency for life. 1744 J. Thomson Spring in Seasons (new ed.) 49 An elegant Sufficiency, Content, Retirement, rural Quiet. 1898 ‘H. S. Merriman’ Roden's Corner viii. 78 Holland suggests..an elderly gentleman..who, having laid by a small sufficiency, sits peaceably by the fire. c. Adequate provision of food or bodily comfort. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > of food or bodily comfort sufficiency1796 1796 C. Smith Marchmont I. 169 [He] could not afford to repair or to live in it [sc. the house] with any degree of comfortable sufficiency for years before his death. 1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. III. 139 She and her daughter..kept the house, which might vie with any nobleman's for true luxury; perfect sufficiency and neatness. 1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. iv. ii. §4. 256 There is..sufficiency everywhere when anciently there would have been scarcity in some places and superfluity in others. 2. The condition or quality of being sufficient for its purpose or for the end in view; adequacy. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > sufficiency in degree or quality sufficiency1565 adequateness1650 adequacy1701 sufficingness1841 enoughness1871 1565 T. Stapleton tr. F. Staphylus Apologie 161 b The sufficiency of only faith to saluation. 1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Hay any Worke for Cooper 27 We know the sufficiencie of it [sc. a book] to be such, as the Puritans are not able to answere it. c1650 W. Bradford Hist. Plymouth Plant. (1856) 75 Perceiveing y^e mariners to feare y^e suffisiencie of y^e shipe. 1661 S. Pepys Diary 15 July (1970) II. 136 I read over the Will and had their advice therein; who, as to the sufficiency thereof, confirmed me. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 116 The Competency or Sufficiency of an Ecclesiastical Benefice, ought to be considered..in respect of the..Charges incumbent on such a Benefice. 1755 E. Young Centaur i, in Wks. (1757) IV. 112 The sufficiency of human reason. 1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe II. viii. 452 Montuela calls him the model of commentators for the pertinence and sufficiency of his notes. 1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. iii. v. 658 Surveyors, who report on the sufficiency of river steam-vessels before they are entitled to ply for passengers. 1884 Law Rep.: Chancery Div. 27 630 There is a doubt about the sufficiency of the assets. 1912 Oxf. Univ. Gaz. 6 Nov. 149/1 The Board shall in writing report to the Regius Professor of Divinity as to the sufficiency of the Candidate's work. 3. (A) sufficient number or quantity of; enough. ΘΚΠ 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 1531 W. Tyndale Expos. 1 John (1537) 88 We ought to aske of God only sufficyency of all worldly thynges. 1598 R. Barckley Disc. Felicitie of Man v. 476 That which bringeth foorth contentation, is a sufficiencie of things. 1623 J. Bingham tr. Xenophon Hist. 93 If we shall finde such sufficiencie of shipping, that not one of vs shall need to be left behinde. 1637 T. Jackson Treat. Signs Times 65 in Diverse Serm. The daily sacrifice of beasts did cease for want of provision, they having plenty, or sufficiency of nothing but of famine. 1747 J. Wesley Primitive Physick p. xvi There is sufficiency of other Medicines. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 106 When he has eaten a sufficiency, he then retires. 1832 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 2) II. xv. 244 So as to afford sufficiency of wood for fuel. 1859 K. Cornwallis Panorama New World I. 353 For practical mining purposes it contained no sufficiency of gold. 1901 T. J. Alldridge Sherbro xv. 145 None of the women wear any clothes, there is simply a sufficiency of strung beads around their waists. 4. a. Sufficient capacity to perform or undertake something; adequate qualification; ability, competency. Obsolete or archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > [noun] > competence, fitness, or ability sufficiencec1384 suffisance1426 opportunity1535 qualification1561 sufficiency1567 fitness1574 qualifiedness1675 adequacy1779 competence1790 competency1797 locus standi1822 1567 Reg. Privy Council Scott. 1st Ser. I. 539 The honestie, habilitie,..and sufficiency of oure said dearest brother to have the cure..of oure said..sone. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. H4^v Their knowledge, discresion, and sufficiencie in their art. 1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons (title page) The great sufficiencie, excellencie and wonderful effects of Archers. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. iii. 223 We haue there a substitute of most allowed sufficiency . View more context for this quotation 1627 G. Hakewill Apologie iii. v Well knowne in London for his Sufficiencie in his profession. 1700 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding (new ed.) ii. xxvii. 183 So able a Man as he, who had sufficiency enough to warrant all the Testimonies he gives of himself. 1786 E. Burke Articles of Charge against W. Hastings in Wks. (1842) II. 200 The nabob's sufficiency for the management of his own affairs. 1800 Marquess Wellesley Let. 5 Mar. in Select. Despatches (1877) 653 The state..has already supported them at a considerable expense, under the presumption of their sufficiency to discharge the duties. 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt III. xli. 120 Their sufficiency to judge the men who make love to them. †b. An instance of this; a qualification; also, an accomplishment. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [noun] > acquired skill > an accomplishment quality1584 accomplishment1586 sufficiency1590 complement1592 virtuea1600 enduement1609 preparationa1616 completion1662 qualification1699 accompliment1705 1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons Ded. To set foorthe and beautifie their owne sufficiencies. 1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love i. iv. sig. C2 I feare I may doe wrong to your sufficiencies in the reporting them. View more context for this quotation 1616 B. Jonson Poëtaster (rev. ed.) i. ii, in Wks. I. 281 It shall neuer put thee to thy Mathematiques, Metaphysiques, Philosophie, and I know not what suppos'd sufficiencies. 1635 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Eliz. (ed. 3) iii. 254 The..Privy Councell, taking notice of his sufficiencies, made use of his counsaile. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 85 By recommendations made to the King of his great sufficiencies in..Oratory. 1713 R. Steele Guardian No. 13. ⁋4 One may have an air, which proceeds from a just sufficiency and knowledge of the matter before him. †5. = self-sufficiency n. 1a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > nature or attributes of God > [noun] > self-sufficiency self-sufficiency1598 self-sufficience1623 sufficiency1635 self-fullness1668 1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi iii. §1. 48 God..whose sufficiencie and efficiencie is altogether absolute. 6. = self-sufficiency n. 3. archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > excessive self-confidence > [noun] overtrust?c1225 self-witc1425 self-trust1526 self-wisdom1571 self-assurance1595 confidence1599 self-confidence1604 self-security1606 self-sufficiencya1617 sufficiency1638 self-wittedness1647 self-trusting1658 self-poise1774 suffisance1781 cock-surety1819 disinvolturac1847 cocksureness1878 cocksureism1889 1638 F. Rous Heavenly Acad. ix. 135 They thought their own eyes sufficient to see, and their own eares to heare; and resting in this insufficient sufficiencie [etc.]. 1690 W. Temple Ess. Anc. & Mod. Learning 3, in Miscellanea: 2nd Pt. I could not read either of this Strain, without some indignation, which no quality among men is so apt to raise in me as sufficiency, the worst composition out of the pride and ignorance of mankind. 1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Moralists i. ii. 26 I cou'd never have the Sufficiency to shock my Spiritual and Learned Superiours. 1734 tr. C. Rollin Method Teaching & Studying Belles Lettres (1773) I. 280 By this air of sufficiency they think they gain the esteem of others, though they only procure their contempt. 1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona viii. 89 Who effer heard of such suffeeciency as tell a shentlemans that is the king's officer he cannae speak Cot's English? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1495
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