All 4 Uses
scanty
in
King Lear
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- You have obedience scanted, And well are worth the want that you have wanted.†
Scene 1.1scanted = given too little
- I pray you, sir, take patience: I have hope You less know how to value her desert Than she to scant her duty.†
Scene 2.4 *
- 'Tis not in thee To grudge my pleasures, to cut off my train, To bandy hasty words, to scant my sizes, And, in conclusion, to oppose the bolt Against my coming in: thou better know'st The offices of nature, bond of childhood, Effects of courtesy, dues of gratitude; Thy half o' the kingdom hast thou not forgot, Wherein I thee endow'd.†
Scene 2.4
- Gracious my lord, hard by here is a hovel; Some friendship will it lend you 'gainst the tempest: Repose you there, whilst I to this hard house,—More harder than the stones whereof 'tis rais'd; Which even but now, demanding after you, Denied me to come in,—return, and force Their scanted courtesy.†
Scene 3.2scanted = given too little
Definitions:
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(1)
(scanty) small in amount -- often inadequate
or:
of clothes: barely covering the area on which they are worn - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)