deficience

See also: déficience

English

Etymology

From Late Latin dēficientia.

Noun

deficience (countable and uncountable, plural deficiences)

1. (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.