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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sufficiency" Quotes from Famous Books

... Rhode Island, That Capt. Carpenter was arrived there from the Coast of Guinea, having had 104 Days Passage, ten Days whereof they were without Meat, but had a Sufficiency of Rice and Corn. They lost but six Slaves out of 69 they bro't ...

— The Olden Time Series: Vol. 2: The Days of the Spinning-Wheel in New England • Various

... and the next four to the lightest tint; the whole, to be so managed, as to give to the flower that fulness, and distinctness, which its position in the design demands. For small flowers, so many shades are rarely necessary. The two darkest shades should be strong, the others soft; this secures sufficiency of contrast, without impairing that harmony of tints, which is so indispensible. You must recollect, that for work done in tent stitch, a greater contrast of shade is required, than for that done in cross stitch. This remark should ...

— The Ladies' Work-Table Book • Anonymous

... have left my journey aside to describe three tropical plants, which afford a sufficiency for all the wants of man. Those plants are well-known; yet there may be some persons ignorant of the utility, and of the various services which they render to the inhabitants of the tropics. My readers will from them be naturally led to reflect how the inhabitants of the torrid zone are ...

— Adventures in the Philippine Islands • Paul P. de La Gironiere

... ask you then to find what friends you can among this company; and if you have none, to make them. Let everybody hear the news. Tell it (if I may offer the suggestion) with humour: how Mr. Austin, somewhat upon the wane, but still filled with sufficiency, gloriously presumed and was most ingloriously set down by a young lady from the north: the lady's name a secret, which you will permit to be divined. The laugh—the position of the hero—will make it circulate;—you perceive I am in earnest;—and in this ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV • Robert Louis Stevenson

... close. Besides, dowager lady Chia got very fond of Ch'in Chung, and would again and again keep him to stay with them for three and five days at a time, treating him as if he were one of her own great-grandsons. Perceiving that in Ch'in Chung's home there was not much in the way of sufficiency, she also helped him in clothes and other necessaries; and scarcely had one or two months elapsed before Ch'in Chung got on friendly terms with every one ...

— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin

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