paucity
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Paucity and eclecticism of detail and connective render it eminently readable.
From Time Magazine Archive
Paucity of bile from a partial inaction of the liver; hence the bombycinous colour of the skin, grey stools, urine not yellow, indigestion, debility, followed by tympany, dropsy, and death.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
So he perceiv'd that Water, was a thing, whose Essence was not compounded of many Qualities, which appear'd from the Paucity of those Actions which arise from its Form.
From The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan by Tufail, Ibn
Paucity of departmental gods and absence of highly specialized gods.
From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris
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Elie Wiesel's "Hope, Despair and Memory" (1986)
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