Table of Contents
- 1 What does elegant sufficiency mean?
- 2 What is an ample sufficiency?
- 3 What is the difference between elegant and eloquent?
- 4 What is the difference between classy and elegant?
- 5 What does eloquently most likely mean?
- 6 What is the new word sufficient?
- 7 Where does the saying my sufficiency come from?
- 8 Where do you find the word sufficiency in literature?
What does elegant sufficiency mean?
An adequate amount, typically in the context of food. Thanks to all of your generous donations, we have an elegant sufficiency to bring down to the homeless shelter. No second helpings for me, please—I’ve already had an elegant sufficiency. See also: elegant, sufficiency.
What is an ample sufficiency?
‘I’ve had an ample sufficiency’ is a genteel way of saying you’ve had enough when offered more food.
What is the difference between elegant and eloquent?
Elegant – of a high grade or quality, splendid. Eloquent – marked by forceful and fluent expression, vividly or movingly expressive or revealing.
What is the opposite of sufficiency?
A sufficiency is an adequate amount of something. The opposite of sufficiency is insufficiency, meaning an inadequate amount.
Who said an ample sufficiency?
James Thomson’s
“An elegant sufficiency” first appears in James Thomson’s 1728 poem Spring, albeit in a context devoid of food.
What is the difference between classy and elegant?
As adjectives the difference between classy and elegant is that classy is elegant, highly stylish or fashionable while elegant is characterised by or exhibiting elegance.
What does eloquently most likely mean?
Eloquently is defined as something done in an articulate manner, or something that was done with good speaking skills. When you delivered a speech with great conviction and style, this is an example of when you spoke eloquently.
What is the new word sufficient?
Some common synonyms of sufficient are adequate, competent, and enough. While all these words mean “being what is necessary or desirable,” sufficient suggests a close meeting of a need.
Where does the phrase’an elegant sufficiency’come from?
This is also implicit in the clip above, where the phrase immediately follows an ‘elocution lesson’ and exhortation to ‘speak properly’ from the speaker’s grandmother. “An elegant sufficiency” first appears in James Thomson’s 1728 poem Spring, albeit in a context devoid of food.
What do you say when someone asks if you have had enough to eat?
A host might ask if you have had enough to eat. Rather than just say that you had had enough, being fearful that so bald a statement might be taken as unrefined or ill-bred, you might instead say, “I’ve had an elegant sufficiency”.
Where does the saying my sufficiency come from?
It’s from Virginia-North Carolina, an older generation, (maybe a hundred years back) and probably from the Appalachians. Three different older friends remember their grandmothers’ using it. It means ‘I’m full’ or ‘I’ve had plenty to eat’. Phonetically: ‘My sufficiency is serrancified’.
Where do you find the word sufficiency in literature?
It is attested in places as far-flung as the UK, Ireland, the USA, Canada, Australia, Sweden, Norway and a Swiss finishing school; variations of it crop up in novels by Margaret Atwood and Fred Chappell, and even more recently in radio and television shows The Archers and Last Tango in Halifax.