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scantness|ˈskæntnɪs|
[f. scant a. + -ness.]
1. The condition of being scant or insufficient in quantity.
c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋415 The synful costlewe array of clothynge, and namely in to muche superfluite, or elles in to desordinat scantnesse [v.r. skarsenesse]. c1412Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 1243, I am so drad of monyes scantnesse, That myn hert is al makid of lightnesse. 1574Dee in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden) 33 Considering your mervailous skantnes of leysor from very waighty matters. 1608R. Dobson in Lismore Papers Ser. ii. (1887) I. 124 As for the skantness of it, I know it is as full of stuffe as any gowne you haue..worn. 1609Skene Reg. Maj., Stat. David II, 45 There is great raritie, and skantnes within the Realme,..of silver. 1661Glanvill Van. Dogm. 193 The miserable scantness of our capacities. 1684Baxter Twelve Arg. i. 2 Tho the scantness of History..tell us not what words were then used. 1846Trench Mirac. Introd. iii. 30 All scantness and scarceness, such as this lack of bread in the wilderness,..belonged not to man as his portion at the first.
†b. Penury, lack of comforts or necessaries.
c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxvi. 124 Þai liffe with grete wricchedness and scantness. c1440Promp. Parv. 442/2 Scantnesse, parcitas, parcimonia.
†c. = scarcity 3. Obs.
1543Aberdeen Reg. (1844) I. 190 The grit dartht and skantnes in the contray.
†2. Of the wind (cf. scant a. 7). Obs.
1574W. Bourne Regiment for Sea xix. (1577) 50 b, Tydes, currentes, or the scantnesse of the wynde, which may put the ship vnto the leewardes of his course. |