Paucity

(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 1:51:13

Pau"ci*ty (?), n. [L. paucitas, fr. paucus few, little: cf. F. paucit'e See Few.]

1.

Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity.

Hooker.

Revelation denies it by the stern reserve, the paucity, and the incompleteness, of its communications. I. Taylor.

2.

Smallnes of quantity; exiguity; insufficiency; as, paucity of blood.

Sir T. Browne.

 

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