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Definition of Proficients
1. proficient [n] - See also: proficient
Lexicographical Neighbors of Proficients
Literary usage of Proficients
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians by William Wilberforce, Daniel Wilson (1829)
"... with their correspondent duties; containing also doctrines, motives, and
precepts, peculiar to itself; we cannot reasonably expect to become proficients ..."
2. Aquinas Ethicus: Or, The Moral Teaching of St. Thomas. A Translation of the by Thomas, Joseph Rickaby (1896)
"Does the difference of states answer to the difference between beginners,
proficients, and perfect ? R. State (status) is in regard of freedom or bondage. ..."
3. Aquinas Ethicus: Or, The Moral Teaching of St. Thomas. A Translation of the by Thomas, Joseph Rickaby (1896)
"Does the difference of states answer to the difference between beginners,
proficients, and perfect ? R. State (status) is in regard of freedom or bondage. ..."
4. A practical view of the prevailing religious system of professed Christians by William Wilberforce (1811)
"... motives, and precepts, peculiar to itself; we cannot reasonably expect to
become proficients in it by the accidental intercourses of life, ..."
5. Specifications for Practical Architecture: Preceded by an Essay on the by Alfred Bartholomew (1840)
"... for granting Honorary Degrees to Proficients therein of various Stages of
Maturity, and for the Conservation of Public Buildings. 925. ..."
6. The Annals of Our Time: A Diurnal of Events, Social and Political Home and by Joseph Irving (1889)
"The case was again adjourned, Mr William Collie being released on bail. IO.
Novel regatta in the Thames, twelve aquatic proficients undertaking a paddling ..."
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