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dearth
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Definition:1. scarcity2. value or dearness due to scarcity
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but in the verity of extolment I take him to be a soul of great article and his infusion of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of him, his semblable in his mirror, and who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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oh, this dearth of the human physiognomy!
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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The first and the mildest course is, by keeping the island hovering over such a town, and the lands about it, whereby he can deprive them of the benefit of the sun and the rain, and consequently afflict the inhabitants with dearth and diseases:
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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