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单词 full scarce
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full scarce
a. Barely, only just; not quite; = scarcely adv. 2. Also †full scarce.See the remarks under scarcely adv. 2, which apply also to the uses of this word. Before adverbs in -ly the form scarce is often adopted instead of scarcely, to avoid the iteration of the suffix.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adverb] > barely, scarcely, only, or just
uneathc1200
scarcely1297
albusyc1325
onlepyc1350
anerly1381
barec1400
scarce1413
scantlyc1440
narrowlyc1450
scant1492
barelya1513
hardly?1532
faintly1544
nakedly1589
just1603
rawly1607
just1627
badly1715
scrimp1756
bare-weighta1763
scrimplya1774
jimp1814
jistc1820
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1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) iv. xvi. 71 A litel hows whiche hath in euery side skars a mannes lengthe.
1558 Bp. T. Watson Holsome Doctr. Seuen Sacramentes xii. f. lxxiiiv All wee haue done, is but our dutie and skarse that.
1565 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 402 Skairis aneuch to sustene this thair realme.
1577 T. Kendall tr. Politianus et al. Flowers of Epigrammes f. 4v With worldly cares he was so toste, that scarse he tooke his reste.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) i. i. 112 Retyring from the Siege of Orleance, Hauing full scarce six thousand in his troupe.
1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 40 The blinde may Judge as well of colours, as may Master Selden of a deceiving argument, who hath saluted Logick scarce along.
1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 19 In a hand scars legible.
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iii. 85 Till Conquerour Death discover them scarce men, Rowling in brutish vices. View more context for this quotation
1676 H. Prideaux Lett. (1875) 54 I scarce think she would marry on [= one] with nothing.
a1699 A. Halkett Autobiogr. (1875) 44 They were so shaken they could skarce hold there feett.
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 135 He scarce ever went to their meetings.
1720 D. Waterland 8 Serm. Divinity of Christ 119 The other Construction..is scarce Sense.
1862 Ld. Tennyson Idylls Ded. 6 And indeed He seems to me Scarce other than my own ideal knight.
1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island iii. xiv. 116 I ran as I never ran before, scarce minding the direction of my flight, so long as it led me from the murderers.
1886 C. E. Pascoe London of To-day (ed. 3) xx. 200 A sleepy little town scarce bigger than a village.
β. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts xiv. 18 With these sayings scase refrayned they the people.1548 in Cal. Scott. Pap. (1898) I. 91 Her ovarlope ys so sanke, scaysse abull to bere her ordynans.1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 470 The stowte Souldiour for faintnesse could scase welde his weapon.
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