Both Uses
proficiency
in
Robinson Crusoe
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- He also, on the other hand, by his very serious questions and inquiries, made me a much better proficient in Scripture knowledge, than I should have been by my own private reading and study.†
*proficient = skillful
- The next thing to be refrained, is obscene discourse, which is the language only of proficients in debauchery, who never repent, but in a gaol or hospital; and whose carcases relish no better than their discourse, till the body becomes too nasty for the soul to stay any longer in it.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(proficiency) skillfulness in something
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)