All 3 Uses of
scarcity
in
Love's Labour's Lost
- My love, her mistress, is a gracious moon; She, an attending star, scarce seen a light.†
Scene 4.3 *scarce = in short supply OR barely or hardly (by a small margin)
- Other slow arts entirely keep the brain; And therefore, finding barren practisers, Scarce show a harvest of their heavy toil; But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain, But with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.†
Scene 4.3
- The face of an old Roman coin, scarce seen.†
Scene 5.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(scarcity) shortage (having an amount that is less than desired)
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely (and typically in classic literature), scarce can be short for scarcely or hardly or barely or by a small margin -- such as in "She was scarce ten years old," or "I scarce know why."