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Webster 1913 Edition

(pa̤′sĭ-ty̆)

Noun.

[L.

paucitas

, fr.

paucus

few, little: cf. F.

paucité

See

Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity; rarity.

Hooker.

Revelation denies it by the stern reserve, the

paucity

, and the incompleteness, of its communications.

I. Taylor.

Smallness of quantity; exiguity; insufficiency;

as,

paucity

of blood

Sir T. Browne.

Noun.

[L. paucitas, from paucus, few.]

Fewness; smallness of number; as the paucity of schools.

Smallness of quantity; as paucity of blood.