deficience
- a variation of deficiency.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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 Hardy, Thomas
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 Taylor, Thomas
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 Milton, John
Dr. Johnson did not rate Phillips very highly; he said that what study could confer he obtained, but that “natural deficience cannot be supplied.”
From The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. by Various
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 Hill, George Birkbeck Norman
