Both Uses
proficiency
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue
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- The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.†
proficiency = skill
- When I say proficiency, I mean that perfection in the game which includes a comprehension of all the sources whence legitimate advantage may be derived.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(proficiency) skillfulness in something
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)