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ˈscantity rare.
[irreg. f. scant a. + -ity, perh. after quantity.]
Scantiness; scarceness.
c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋357, I sey nat that honestitee in clothynge of man or womman is vncouenable, but certes the superfluitee or disordinat scantitee [v.rr. skantite(e, scantite] of clothynge is repreuable. 1550–3Decaye Eng. in S. Fish Supplic. Beggers (1871) 95 Shepe & shepemasters doeth cause skantyte of corne. 1577–87Harrison England iii. iv. 225/2 Such is the scantitie of them here in England, in comparison of the plentie that is to be seene in other countries. 1839J. H. Newman Paroch. Serm. IV. xv. 265 At least there are cases where this wavering of mind does arise from scantiness of prayer; and if so, it is worth a man's considering..whether this scantity be not perchance the true reason of such infirmities in his own case. |