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

It has been hinted that there was a reason for the scarceness of the plums in the plum-cake.

From A Great Emergency and Other Tales by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty

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

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

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