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Scantness   Listen
noun
Scantness  n.  The quality or condition of being scant; narrowness; smallness; insufficiency; scantiness. "Scantness of outward things."





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"Scantness" Quotes from Famous Books



... noted in the foregoing pages to tell its own small story, but have it on my conscience to wonder, in this connection, quite candidly and publicly and by way of due penance, at the scantness of such first-fruits of my sensibility. I was to see Siena repeatedly in the years to follow, I was to know her better, and I would say that I was to do her an ampler justice didn't that remark seem to reflect a little ...
— Italian Hours • Henry James


Words linked to "Scantness" :   poorness, abstemiousness, insufficiency, meagreness, scant, sparseness, wateriness, exiguity, leanness, scantiness, meagerness, sparsity, thinness


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