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Definition
shortage (having an amount that is less than desired)
- 'tis true; for those that she makes fair she scarce makes honest; and those that she makes honest she makes very ill-favouredly.1.2 — Act 1 Scene 2 — A Lawn before the DUKE'S Palace (13% in)
- So had you need; I scarce can speak to thank you for myself.2.6 — Act 2 Scene 6 — Another part of the Forest (88% in)
- 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.4.1 — Act 4 Scene 1 — The Forest of Arden (18% in)
There are no more uses of "scarcity" in As You Like It.
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