Sufficiency
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster
Sufficiency - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
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 Cor 3.
5. Conceit; self-confidence. [See Self-sufficiency.]
Source of the article
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
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