All 3 Uses of
scarcity
in
As You Like It
- 'tis true; for those that she makes fair she scarce makes honest; and those that she makes honest she makes very ill-favouredly.†
Scene 1.2 *
- So had you need; I scarce can speak to thank you for myself.†
Scene 2.6
- Farewell, monsieur traveller: look you lisp and wear strange suits; disable all the benefits of your own country; be out of love with your nativity, and almost chide God for making you that countenance you are; or I will scarce think you have swam in a gondola.†
Scene 4.1
Definition:
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(scarcity) shortage (having an amount that is less than desired)