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
What study could confer, Philips had obtained; but natural deficience cannot be supplied.
From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Samuel Johnson
In mathematics, which I place as a part of metaphysic, I can report no deficience.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
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
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
