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Scantness   Listen
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Scantness  n.  The quality or condition of being scant; narrowness; smallness; insufficiency; scantiness. "Scantness of outward things."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Scantness" Quotes from Famous Books



... the weather continued unsettled; then it cleared, and the raft resumed her journey. But her progress was slow, owing to the scantness of the wind, and for the next ten days they were able to accomplish only a few miles a day, the current running strong against them. Then, late on a certain afternoon, they reached a point where the bed of the river was obstructed by rapids, and ...
— In Search of El Dorado • Harry Collingwood



Words linked to "Scantness" :   meagerness, poorness, abstemiousness, scant, exiguity, wateriness, inadequacy, spareness, deficiency, thinness, sparsity, insufficiency, scantiness, sparseness, leanness, meagreness



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