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sufficiences

sufficiences is the plural of sufficience.

Meaning of sufficience

Noun

sufficience (countable and uncountable, plural sufficiences)

  1. (obsolete) The condition or quality of being sufficient; sufficiency.
  2. (obsolete) Capability; competence.
    • He speaketh of the sufficience of the minde and of internall qualities.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 42, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

Questions about sufficiences

What is sufficiences the plural of?
Sufficiences is the plural of sufficience.

Words near sufficiences in the dictionary

  1. sufficers
  2. suffices
  3. sufficest
  4. sufficeth
  5. sufficience
  6. sufficiences
  7. sufficiencie
  8. sufficiencies
  9. sufficiency
  10. sufficient
  11. sufficient condition

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