His sufficiency is such that he bestows and
possesses, his plenty being unexhausted. --Boyle.
2. Qualification for any purpose; ability; capacity.
A substitute or most allowed sufficiency. --Shak.
I am not so confident of my own sufficiency as not
willingly to admit the counsel of others. --Eikon
Basilike.
3. Adequate substance or means; competence. ``An elegant
sufficiency.'' --Thomson.
4. Supply equal to wants; ample stock or fund.
5. Conceit; self-confidence; self-sufficiency.
Sufficiency is a compound of vanity and ignorance.
--Sir W.
Temple.