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deficiences

deficiences is the plural of deficience.

Meaning of deficience

Noun

deficience (countable and uncountable, plural deficiences)

  1. (obsolete) Deficiency.
    • 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.1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost

Questions about deficiences

What is deficiences the plural of?
Deficiences is the plural of deficience.

Words near deficiences in the dictionary

  1. defibulates
  2. defibulating
  3. defibulation
  4. defibulations
  5. deficience
  6. deficiences
  7. deficiencies
  8. deficiency
  9. deficiency disease
  10. deficiency diseases
  11. deficiency letter

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