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de·fi·cience
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deficiencenoun
deficiency
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
DEFICIENCE, DEFICIENCYnoun
Defect; failing; imperfection.
Etymology: from deficio, Latin.
Joseph Justus Scaliger, finding a defect in the reason of Aristotle , introduceth one of no less deficiency himself. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours.
Thou in thyself art perfect, and in thee
Is no deficience found. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. viii. l. 415.We shall find, in our own natures, too great evidence of intellectual deficience, and deplorable confessions of human ignorance. Joseph Glanvill, Sceps. c. 3.
What great deficience is it, if we come short of others? Thomas Sprat, Sermons.
The characters of comedy and tragedy are never to be made perfect, but always to be drawn with some specks of frailty and deficience, such as they have been described to us in history. John Dryden, Dufresnoy, Pref.
What is to be considered in this case, is chiefly, if there be a sufficient fulness or deficiency of blood, for different methods are to be taken. John Arbuthnot, on Diet.
There is no burden laid upon our posterity, nor any deficiency to be hereafter made up by ourselves, which has been our case in so many other subsidies. Joseph Addison, Freeholder.
Webster Dictionary
Deficiencenoun
same as Deficiency
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of deficience in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of deficience in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
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