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sufficiencie

sufficiencie is the obsolete spelling of sufficiency.

Meaning of sufficiency

Noun

sufficiency (countable and uncountable, plural sufficiencies)

  1. (uncountable) The quality or condition of being sufficient.
  2. (countable) An adequate amount.
    • But the Eastern front of the Allies was far more vulnerable. Russia could not begin to supply herself with a sufficiency of large guns and of heavy munitionment for them.1916, Hilaire Belloc, A General Sketch of the European War: The second phase, page 388

Questions about sufficiencie

What is sufficiencie the obsolete spelling of?
Sufficiencie is the obsolete spelling of sufficiency.

Words near sufficiencie in the dictionary

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

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