All 3 Uses of
scarcity
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Later the trees become scarce and spindly, with large areas of grass and underbrush between them.†
Part 3 *scarce = in short supply OR barely or hardly (by a small margin)
- But in scientific parlance the words for this absence of subject-object duality are scarce because scientific minds have shut themselves off from consciousness of this kind of understanding in the assumption of the formal dualistic scientific outlook.†
Part 3
- — something, something along some Strip of Herbage strown, That just divides the desert from the sown, Where name of Slave and Sultan scarce is known, And pity Sultan Mahmud on his Throne.†
Part 3
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."