deficience
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See also: déficience
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Late Latin dēficientia.
Noun
[edit]deficience (countable and uncountable, plural deficiences)
- (obsolete) Deficiency.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost[1]:
- Thou in thyself art perfect, and in thee Is no deficience found: Not so is Man, But in degree; the cause of his desire By conversation with his like to help Or solace his defects.
- 1719, Isaac Watts, The Psalms of David[2]:
- Whoever has the care of instructing others, may be charged with deficience in his duty if this book is not recommended.
- 1760, Samuel Johnson, in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, Oxford 2008, p. 253:
- [H]is faults seem to be very many; some of natural deficience, and some of laborious affectation.