efficacity
Americannoun
plural
efficacitiesExample Sentences
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Phone-jamming is deployed in some jails, but there are doubts about its efficacity.
From BBC • May 20, 2025
The methods for compelling the observance of these limitations have neither of them any real efficacity.
From England's Case Against Home Rule by Dicey, Albert Venn
The second question is that of knowing what is the rôle, the utility, and the efficacity of the psychical phenomenon.
From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Binet, Alfred
How little of the tortuosity of metaphysics is here;—but what grand efficacity of super-ethics!
From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth
If it is not the thing that creates the relation, it will be said, at least it is that which creates its efficacity of suggestion.
From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Binet, Alfred
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