Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
sufficiency .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Sufficiently.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete The condition or quality of being
sufficient ;sufficiency . - noun obsolete
Capability ;competence .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The idea of self-sufficience is barely alive with the youth of today, but when the money runs out they will be standing in some line waiting to see who will “help” them.
Think Progress » Inhofe trying to get Bunning to end filibuster so highway funding doesn’t expire. 2010
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Try, instead of blaming everything on everyone, getting out and personally making a change that would put people on the road to self-sufficience.
Think Progress » Rep. Trent Franks: African-Americans were better off under slavery. 2010
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This person is under the delusion that he has achieved all he has through “self sufficience.”
Think Progress » Rep. Trent Franks: African-Americans were better off under slavery. 2010
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Try, instead of blaming everything on everyone, getting out and personally making a change that would put people on the road to self-sufficience.
Think Progress » Rep. Trent Franks: African-Americans were better off under slavery. 2010
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I believe seeing struggles and learning some self sufficience will benefit them as adults as opposed to the kids who were breastfed til 3 and who do nothing for themselves.
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I believe seeing struggles and learning some self sufficience will benefit them as adults as opposed to the kids who were breastfed til 3 and who do nothing for themselves.
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Anyway, when one openly speaks of "Italians cowards and incompetents", probably knowing very few of what the Italians have done and are doing, well, it reminds me the typical British attitude of superiority, scorn and sufficience towards the other people - Italians, last of all in the list.
John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the... 2007
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The greatest of all overthrowers, he always understood that it is towards such ages as these, the too short ages of conviction and self-sufficience, that our endeavor works.
Voltaire 2007
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Anyway, when one openly speaks of "Italians cowards and incompetents", probably knowing very few of what the Italians have done and are doing, well, it reminds me the typical British attitude of superiority, scorn and sufficience towards the other people - Italians, last of all in the list.
John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the... 2007
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Self-sufficience becomes more important the further away you go.
The Speculist: Nanomanufacturing: A Prerequisite to Space Colonization 2006
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