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Definition
shortage (an amount that is less than desired)
- In the provinces, too, where music was so scarce in that remote time, how could the musical people avoid falling in love with each other?6.1 -- Book 6 Chapter 1 -- A Duet in Paradise (63% in)
There are no more uses of "scarcity" in The Mill on the Floss.
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