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
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
If it has been thought inferiour to that with which it is naturally compared, the cause of its deficience has been already remarked.
From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Samuel Johnson
Again, in itself contraries always appear, the small and the great, the less and the more, deficience and excess.
From An Essay on the Beautiful From the Greek of Plotinus by Thomas Taylor
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
