† inˈsuffisance Obs.
[a. F. insuffisance (1337 in Godef. Compl.), f. insuffisant: see next and -ance; cf. insufficience.]
= insufficience 1; personal unfitness or incompetency.
| 1387–8 T. Usk Test. Love i. ix. (Skeat) l. 14 To declare that thy insuffisaunce is no maner letting. c 1400 Mandeville (1839) xxxi. 315 For myn unable insuffisance now I am comen Hom (mawgree my self) to reste. 1502 Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W. 1506) iv. vii. 186 That he may supplye the insuffysaunce of his confessoure. |