deficiency
noun
the state of being deficient; lack; incompleteness; insufficiency.
deficience
-
a variation of
deficiency.
Example Sentences
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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.
From Paradise Lost by John Milton
My acquaintances by degrees began to fall away; but I perceived the decline of my business with little emotion, because whatever deficience there might be in my gains I expected the next lottery to supply.
From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Ernest Rhys
I have this year omitted church on most Sundays, intending to supply the deficience in the week.
From Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 by George Birkbeck Norman Hill
Ah! know'st thou not her secret yet, her vainly veiled deficience, Whence it comes that all unwittingly she wounds the lives she loves?
From Poems of the Past and the Present by Thomas Hardy
In poetry I can report no deficience; it has sprung up and spread abroad more than any other kind of learning.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
