deficiency
noun
the state of being deficient; lack; incompleteness; insufficiency.
deficience
-
a variation of
deficiency.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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
