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Webster 1913 Edition
Paucity
1.
Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity; rarity.
Hooker.
Revelation denies it by the stern reserve, the
paucity
, and the incompleteness, of its communications. I. Taylor.
2.
Smallness of quantity; exiguity; insufficiency;
as,
. paucity
of bloodSir T. Browne.
Webster 1828 Edition
Paucity
PAU'CITY
,Noun.
1.
Fewness; smallness of number; as the paucity of schools.2.
Smallness of quantity; as paucity of blood.Definition 2024
paucity
paucity
English
Noun
paucity (countable and uncountable, plural paucities)
- Fewness in number; too few.
- 1915, Anna Katharine Green, The Golden Slipper, problem 7:
- But when I had crossed the threshold, I was astonished at the paucity of facts to be gleaned from the inmates themselves.
- 2006, Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman, "Uncle Sam Wants You," Time, 13 July:
- Your tax refund might be late, owing to a paucity of number crunchers.
- 1915, Anna Katharine Green, The Golden Slipper, problem 7:
- A smallness in size or amount that is insufficient; meagerness, dearth.
- 1898, Mark Twain, "At the Appetite-Cure":
- Now came shipwrecks and life in open boats, with the usual paucity of food.
- 1915, Gene Stratton-Porter, Michael O'Halloran, ch. 12:
- Here is where the paucity of our language is made manifest.
- 1898, Mark Twain, "At the Appetite-Cure":
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fewness in number; a small number