单词 | scantiness |
释义 | scantinessn. The quality or fact of being scanty. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [noun] > state of being limited in amount > scantiness or meagreness scantnessc1386 parcity1509 tenuity1535 scantiness1567 bareness1580 barrenness1587 exiguity1604 leanness1612 meagreness1622 thinness1623 jejuneness1626 macilencya1631 narrowness1647 straitnessa1704 flimsinessa1763 threadbareness1771 poorness1782 skimpiness1879 threadbarity1892 1567 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 571 Considdering that victualis ar cariit furth of this realme be marchantis and utheris..to the greit incres of derth and skantines. a1695 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. III (1696) 335 Such is the Scantiness of Sensual Goods, that we not being able to content our selves with any one of them, are fain to walk the Rounds in a constant Succession and Circle of Varieties. 1745 Life Bampfylde-Moore Carew 71 The..frugal Way of Life to which the Scantiness of their Pay obliges those Military Gentlemen to live. 1808 L. Murray Eng. Gram. Illustr. I. ii. x. 179 The too frequent use of such words tends to breed a suspicion, that one labours under a scantiness of ideas. 1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) i. 5 Miss Tox's dress..had a certain character of angularity and scantiness. 1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men II. x. 253 The scantiness of manuscript authority under which the text..labours. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.1567 |
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