efficacity
Americannoun
plural
efficacitiesExample Sentences
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Phone-jamming is deployed in some jails, but there are doubts about its efficacity.
From BBC • May 20, 2025
How little of the tortuosity of metaphysics is here;—but what grand efficacity of super-ethics!
From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth
The second question is that of knowing what is the rôle, the utility, and the efficacity of the psychical phenomenon.
From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Binet, Alfred
However, notwithstanding the strong recommendations of the remedy on the part of the above named practitioners and others, the efficacity of it as a general remedy for scarlet-fever has not been confirmed.
From Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms by Munde, Charles
If it is not the thing that creates the relation, it will be said, at least it is that which creates its efficacity of suggestion.
From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Binet, Alfred
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