sufficience
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French sufficience, from Late Latin sufficientia.
Noun
[edit]sufficience (countable and uncountable, plural sufficiences)
- (obsolete) The condition or quality of being sufficient; sufficiency.
- (obsolete) Capability; competence.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 42, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- He speaketh of the sufficience of the minde and of internall qualities.