Which preposition to use with deficients

in Occurrences 483%

I found him a large, unwieldy figure, of a dull, heavy look, but by no means deficient in science or natural shrewdness.

of Occurrences 7%

That of herself she is deficient of counsel in such things as relate to interior wisdom and the prudence thence derived.

as Occurrences 5%

Inasmuch as Byron was a lover of solitude, he was deficient as an observer of men.

than Occurrences 4%

I the more inculcate this Chearfulness of Temper, as it is a Virtue in which our Countrymen are observed to be more deficient than any other Nation.

from Occurrences 3%

Each therefore has something in which it abounds more than, and something in which it is deficient from the other.

on Occurrences 2%

But opportunity and temptation supplied that, which might have been deficient on the side of nature.

by Occurrences 1%

You will judge of his excellence not from what I may say but from what you yourselves know, and you will assist my discourse, making good what is deficient by your memory of events.

for Occurrences 1%

Having refused to be at any expense for my own election, and having had all its expenses defrayed by others, I felt under a peculiar obligation to subscribe in my turn where funds were deficient for candidates whose election was desirable.

with Occurrences 1%

A woman who is gonad deficient with a superior adrenal will suffer from virilism and specialize in the extreme tactics and mythology of the feminist movement.

without Occurrences 1%

On the 8th of January, 1582, he received the honour of knighthood from the queen; and in the beginning of the year 1585, he designed an expedition with Sir Francis Drake into America; but being hindered by the Queen, who thought the court would be deficient without him, he was made Governor of Flushing, (about that time delivered to the Queen for one of the cautionary-towns) and General of the Horse.

Which preposition to use with  deficients