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Scarceness [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. SCARCENESS ,

3. Smallness of quantity, or smallness in proportion to the wants or demands; deficiency defeat of plenty; penury; as a scarcity of grain; a great scarcity of beauties; a scarcity of lovely women.

4. Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value to its scarcity.

5. A scarcity of snow would raise a mutiny at Naples.

6. Rareness; infrequency.

7. The value of an advantage is enhanced by its scarceness

8. Root of scarcity, the mangold-wurzel, a variety of the white beet.

Scarceness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Scarcity