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John Milton

Say, Heavenly Muse, shall not thy sacred vein 15

Afford a present to the Infant God?

Hast thou no verse, no hymn, or solemn strain,

To welcome him to this his new abode,

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adjective

Able to be tolerated or allowed; satisfactory or suitable for a particular purpose or situation.

The teacher said that a score of 70% or higher was acceptable for passing the test.

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sufficiently

Part of SpeechadverbPronunciation/səˈfɪʃəntli/Used In Literature ↓

(manner) In a sufficient manner; enough.

In a Sentence

Once we had eaten and drunk sufficiently, we padded off to sleep.

Origin

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Common Phrases

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Poetry examples for sufficiently

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

can it be thought strange that he should stop here, however unexpectedly.

To write without reward is sufficiently unpleasing. He had now arrived

at an age when he might think it proper to be in jest no longer, and,

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