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Deficiency   /dɪfˈɪʃənsi/   Listen
Deficiency

noun
(pl. deficiencies)
1.
The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.  Synonyms: lack, want.  "Water is the critical deficiency in desert regions" , "For want of a nail the shoe was lost"
2.
Lack of an adequate quantity or number.  Synonyms: inadequacy, insufficiency.  Antonyms: adequacy, sufficiency.



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"Deficiency" Quotes from Famous Books



... for curing jaundice and kindred biliary derangements. When taken by healthy provers in varying quantities to test its toxic effects the plant has caused distension of the whole abdomen, especially on the right side, with tenderness on pressure over the liver, and with a deficiency of bile in hard knotty stools, the colouring matter of the faeces being found by chemical tests present in the urine: so that a preparation of this Thistle modified in strength, and considerably diluted in its doses proves truly homoeopathic to simple obstructive ...
— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie

... fleets without the possibility of being interrupted? They are perfectly well suited to remain stationary and aid us in blockading the Southern ports; but the frequent escape of fast steamers running the blockade, serves still further to demonstrate the great and palpable deficiency in the speed of our ships of war. We may start a hundred of our best steamers on the track of the Alabama, and, without an accident, they can never overtake her. The only alternative is to accept the lesson which her example ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various

... superior court shall be composed of six members, who shall hold rank not less than brigadier generals, and the judge advocate. If the number of generals present in the capitol of the revolutionary government shall not be sufficient the deficiency shall be supplied by representatives designated and commissioned by congress. The president of the court shall be the general having the highest rank of all, and should there be more than one having equal rank, the president shall be elected ...
— The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, • Murat Halstead

... you may bear the blame of having imposed such a burden on me, and I only that of having undertaken it. And then the credit of having had such a commission given me by you, will make amends for the blame which the deficiency of my judgment will bring ...
— The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 • Cicero

... time. In the factory, too, Hoeflinger occupied a special and independent position: he served the iron saw, a giant of double a man's height. This had impaired his hearing; figuratively speaking, you had to use Gothic type in order to make him understand. On the other hand, this deficiency favored his tendency to accept the phenomena of life summarily and to survey things ...
— The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 • Various


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