SUFFI'CIENCY, n. The state of being adequate to the end proposed.
His sufficiency is such, that he bestows and possesses, his plenty being unexhausted.
1. Qualification for any purpose.
I am not so confident of my own sufficiency as not willingly to admit the counsel of others.
2. Competence adequate substance or means.
An elegant sufficiency, content.
3. Supply equal to wants ample stock or fund.
4. Ability adequate power.
Our sufficiency is of God. 2 Corinthians 3
5. Conceit self-confidence. See Self-sufficiency.
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