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

There was a great scarceness of lead for bullets; and to supply that need the leaden sashes, in which window-panes were at that time set, were melted down.

From The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 by Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John)

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

It would be too tedious to dwell on the beauty, merit, and scarceness of these stones, as well as on their finished workmanship and degree of antiquity.

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

If he be vanquished, Or make his peace, Egypt is doomed to be A Roman province; and our plenteous harvests Must then redeem the scarceness of their soil.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Scott, Walter, Sir