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Paucity   /pˈɔsəti/   Listen
noun
Paucity  n.  
1.
Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity; rarity. "Revelation denies it by the stern reserve, the paucity, and the incompleteness, of its communications."
2.
Smallness of quantity; exiguity; insufficiency; as, paucity of blood.





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"Paucity" Quotes from Famous Books



... plan carried out? The student will be puzzled on finding such a paucity of records concerning this disastrous movement. The official documents are remarkable for what they do not contain. A study of Covode's reports on the conduct of the war will, I think, justify ...
— War from the Inside • Frederick L. (Frederick Lyman) Hitchcock
... complaint is of a comparatively small and almost mechanical, and yet very real, defect—the paucity and irregularity of his dates, and the mode in which the few that he does give are overlaid, as it were, by the text. This, though it may be very convenient to the writer, and quite indifferent to the reader, of an historical ...
— Famous Reviews • Editor: R. Brimley Johnson
... 1853, Hawthorne wrote "The House of the Seven Gables," "The Blithedale Romance," "The Wonder-Book for Boys and Girls," and "Tanglewood Tales," besides the story of "The Snow Image" in the volume to which this supplies the title; and his short "Life of Franklin Pierce." The previous paucity of encouragements to literature, and the deterring effect of official duties and of the Brook Farm attempt, were now removed, and his pen showed that it could pour a full current if only left free ...
— A Study Of Hawthorne • George Parsons Lathrop
... We find in verses 5-16 the pronoun "he" used. Should it not in harmony with verse 26 be "they," a dual pronoun? We may attribute this to the same cause as the use of "his" in verse 11 instead of "it." The fruit tree yielding fruit after "his" kind instead of after "its" kind. The paucity of a language may give rise to ...
— The Woman's Bible. • Elizabeth Cady Stanton
... Manchuria. One of them was the extreme severity of the struggle for existence which most species of animals have to carry on against an inclement Nature; the enormous destruction of life which periodically results from natural agencies; and the consequent paucity of life over the vast territory which fell under my observation. And the other was, that even in those few spots where animal life teemed in abundance, I failed to find— although I was eagerly looking for it—that bitter struggle for the means of existence, among ...
— Mutual Aid • P. Kropotkin


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