scarceness

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While there’s a scarceness of concrete data to support this, the salon owners and barbers in various countries who I spoke to reported a moderate uptick in interest in body hair care.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 13, 2018

Mark the scarceness of abstract terms, the concreteness of the figures:— Curséd the wight that trusteth in man Making flesh his stay!

From Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 by Smith, George Adam, Sir

Such are oxen, goats, and horses, which are much valued for their scarceness, but used without saddle, bridle, or trappings.

From Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work. by Beazley, C. Raymond

Books are to me instead of friends, I wish they did not resemble the latter in their scarceness.

From The Best Letters of Charles Lamb by Lamb, Charles

The river was the only resource, and from the scarceness of hooks the supply of fish obtainable was rather scanty.

From The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists The Pioneers of Manitoba by Bryce, George