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First published 1974 (SND Vol. IX).
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UNSUFFICIENT, adj. Also unsifficient (Bte. 1728 Rothesay T.C. Records (1935) II. 717). Sc. usage, of a building: weak, unsound, insecure, lacking strength or solidity. See Sufficient. The form unsufficient became obs. in Eng. in the 17th c. Hence unsufficiency, n.Sc. 1717 Burgh Rec. Gsw. (1908) 618:
The roofe is unsuficient for want of thack.Sth. 1730 C. D. Bentinck Dornoch (1926) 271:
To pull down the old Town Tolbooth and Council House, finding the samen unsufficient and not capable of Reparation.Cai. 1760 D. Grant Old Thurso (1966) 3:
A place of confinement very unfitt, not only from unsufficiency but dangerous otherwise.