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

A scarceness seven years, or else three months' exile, If not, for three days a pestilence most vile, For one thou must have, there is no remedy.

From "Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays by Rhys, Ernest

When the war broke out in 1793, the usual scarceness of seamen was met.

From The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)

There's a number o' machines hier the day, Messis McTarvish, an' a wonderfu' crood; there'll be a bit scarceness ower on yon side, but a gey many a'thegither.

From Mr. Punch in the Highlands by Various

He is inferior to them in design and composition; however the scarceness of his pictures frequently gives them a superior value.

From Paris as It Was and as It Is by Blagdon, Francis W.