Both Uses of
proficiency
in
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- In a little time I made great proficiency in the business, and became a useful hand to my brother.†
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- …to the top; and I would therefore offer it to the consideration of those who superintend the education of our youth, whether, since many of those who begin with the Latin quit the same after spending some years without having made any great proficiency, and what they have learnt becomes almost useless, so that their time has been lost, it would not have been better to have begun with the French, proceeding to the Italian, etc.; for, tho', after spending the same time, they should quit…†
Definition:
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(proficiency) skillfulness in something