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Definition
shortage (having an amount that is less than desired)
- The moment, however, that one tries this method with the Elizabethan woman, one branch of illumination fails; one is held up by the scarcity of facts.3 (21% in)
- Indeed, since freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art, such a lack of tradition, such a scarcity and inadequacy of tools, must have told enormously upon the writing of women.4 (93% in)
There are no more uses of "scarcity" in A Room of One's Own.
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