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paucity
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synonyms: exiguity, tenuity, niggardliness, modicity ???
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Definition:scarcity
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For me it was too late. I was not boy, nor youth, despite my paucity of years. I had bucked big with men.
Jack London. John Barleycorn
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Any inward debate Lydgate had as to the consequences of this engagement which had stolen upon him, turned on the paucity of time rather than of money.
George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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