1580. Hollyband, Treas. Fr. Tong, Incompetence, not meete or fitte for, vnsufficiencie.
1594. Hooker, Eccl. Pol., II. viii. § 3. The vnsufficiencie of the light of Nature. Ibid. (1597), V. lxxxi. § 14. There are Ciuill as well as Ecclesiasticall Vnsufficiencies, Non-residences, and Pluralities.
1625. T. Godwin, Moses & Aaron, IV. i. 172. The Arabians perceiuing the vnsufficiency of their knowne gods, dedicated their altars, Ignoto Deo.
1661. K. W., Conf. Charac., [Empirick] (1860), 65. The weakness and unsufficiency of other doctors.