Forming a privative expression with the noun modified, with the sense ‘lack of, absence or scarcity of (what the noun denotes)’. Obsolete.
| 单词 | θ118460 |
| 释义 | the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [noun] > state of being limited in amount > scarcity, dearth, or deficient supply of anything (28) littleOE Forming a privative expression with the noun modified, with the sense ‘lack of, absence or scarcity of (what the noun denotes)’. Obsolete. dear cheapc1325 State of the market, qualified from the buyer's point of view as good, dear, etc. good cheap: a state of the market good for the purchaser; low… dearth1340 figurative and transferred. Scarcity of anything, material or immaterial; scanty supply; practical deficiency, want or lack of a quality, etc. scanta1350 Scanty supply; dearth, scarcity. scantityc1386 Scantiness; scarceness. scarcenessa1387 Deficient supply, scarcity. scarcitya1400 Insufficiency of supply; smallness of available quantity, number, or amount, in proportion to the need or demand. chertea1420 Dearness in price; dearth. penury?a1425 Dearth, deficiency, or want of something. In later use chiefly poetic. poverty?1440 Deficiency, dearth, scarcity; smallness of amount. Also: want of or deficiency in or of some property, ingredient, etc.; the condition of being… penuritya1500 = penury, n. 2. Obsolete. geason1509 Rarity, scarcity. rare. carity1530 Dearness, dearth. scantness1543 = scarcity, n. 3. Obsolete. famishment1569 figurative. Obsolete. fewty1596 The state or condition of being few; scarcity. famine1611 transferred. An extreme dearth or scarcity of something specified, material or immaterial. stint1651 Limitation, restriction. with reference to amount, quantity, or degree. without stint: with no fixed limit of amount, unstintedly. grutch1815 The condition of a thing which is refused or given grudgingly; want, lack, scarcity. rare. Subcategories:— action of stinting (2) — deprivation of something necessary to life (1) — general scarcity of necessaries of life (5) — creating a scarcity (1) |
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