Term Gallery logo

Meanings of own deficiency in English

We have no meanings for "own deficiency" in our records yet.
Usage of own deficiency in English
1
So I was in the mood now to feel my own deficiency.
Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales
2
With rage you, perhaps for the first time, realise your own deficiency.
The Young Priest's Keepsake
3
John Crumb had no delicacy as to declaring his own deficiency in literary acquirements.
The Way We Live Now
4
But she had not such self-command, and was painfully aware of her own deficiency.
Framley Parsonage
5
The view is there, right enough, but my own deficiency keeps me from seeing it.
The Rosary
6
Because she is not aware of her own deficiency.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 0...
7
Conscious of her own deficiency in this respect, she determined to redeem this error in her offspring.
Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. — Volume 5 / Being se...
8
One ought to have faith in people; I am afraid my own deficiency is want of faith.
The Laurel Bush: An Old-Fashioned Love Story
9
The Scots, sensible of their own deficiency in cavalry, had applied to the regency of Charles VI.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I., Part B. / From...
10
Conscious of my own deficiency, I cannot enter on these duties without great anxiety for the result.
United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches: From Washington to...
11
He had not the gift of saying much to such persons, and was himself aware of his own deficiency.
Cousin Henry
12
Thinking to have a little hit at his own deficiency, I ventured to add, 'or without a night-cap, sir'.
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
13
He enclosed to each state a return of its troops on continental establishment, thereby exhibiting to each its own deficiency.
The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 / Commander in Chief of th...
14
Doubtless this is my fault, my own deficiency; but I cannot help it,-not ,atleast, without sophisticating myself by the effort.
Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2.
15
I mean lessons in rejoicing at her excellence and my own deficiency, said Gwendolen, turning on him a sweet, open smile.
Daniel Deronda
16
He is painfully conscious of his own deficiency, and painfully anxious, as you must have seen, to hide it from observation.
The Moonstone
This collocation consists of:
Own deficiency through the time
Own deficiency across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common