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

The occurrence of these large boulders together with the scarceness of fossils has suggested a glacial origin for the formation; but the evidence hitherto collected is not conclusive.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various

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

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