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

Such changes may be brought about either by the plenty, or scarceness, of the herbage; or by the nature of the country on which that herbage is produced.

From A Treatise on Sheep: The Best Means for their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of their Diseases. by Blacklock, Ambrose

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.

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

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