Sufficing
[sə'faisɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suffice
(a.) Affording enough; satisfying.
Typed by Audrey
Examples
- The State is all-sufficing for the wants of man, and, like the idea of the Church in later ages, absorbs all other desires and affections. Plato. The Republic.
- The more purely mental it is, the more independent or self-sufficing is it. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Again, experience always involved lack, need, desire; it was never self-sufficing. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- As I said before, I was sitting near the stove, let into the wall beneath the refectory and the carré, and thus sufficing to heat both apartments. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- A State, I said, arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants. Plato. The Republic.
- What he did was accomplished with the ease and grace of all-sufficing strength; with the bountiful cheerfulness of high and unbroken energies. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I see her confessing that she was not so self-sufficing, so independent of sympathy, as people thought. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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