Paucity is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PAUCITY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• smallness of number or quantity
• the presence of something in only small or insufficient quantities or amounts
• Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity.
• Smallnes of quantity; exiguity; insufficiency; as, paucity of blood.
• an insufficient quantity or number
• scarcity

Words related to PAUCITY

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How to use PAUCITY in a sentence

• Lack, want, need, deficiency, dearth, paucity, scarcity, deficit.
• We still furnished guards at the Ajmir and Lahore Gates, the term of duty, through paucity of men for relief, extending over three days.
• Their paucity cannot surprise us, as in the same Curetonian text there is not a single quotation from the Old Testament.
• Nor did it take less fantastic forms than usual, where sympathies and antipathies are strong in proportion to the paucity of the facts on which they are fed.
• Their speech, which I speak uncommonly easy, is round and rich and musical, possessing a paucity of consonants, being composed principally of vowels.
• As the island is suffering rather from a paucity of laborers, than otherwise, labor must in good seasons command good wages.
• No other birds came to us, and one of the most striking features in the Wilderness was the paucity of bird life and voice.
• Struthas, then, seeing the disorderly advance of the supports and the paucity of the vanguard, appeared suddenly at the head of a large body of cavalry, all in orderly array.
• It is more suggestive to the imagination because of the paucity of its objects to appeal to the eye.
• But until recently there was a paucity of ladies, and the majority of gentlemen had but the choice between marrying beneath them or not at all.
• The difficulty with using them to promote immediate and direct efficiency lies in the paucity of the literature that is at our disposal.
• During the tours of duty in this sector the paucity of the numbers and the length of the communication trenches made the difficulties of food supply very great.
• They were not very many, but just then, though he was a young gentleman keenly alive to the advantages of a full purse, their paucity hardly troubled him.
• Perhaps the paucity of inhabitants in proportion to the extent of country and the unsubstantial materials of the houses may contribute to this observation.
• Either a paucity or excess of water at the roots should lead to identical results.
• Perhaps two thousand persons assembled at dreary Claremorris, but the small representation of the country side made up for the paucity of its numbers by the loudness of its voice.
• During the same year new colonists were enrolled for Setia, the colony itself complaining of the paucity of men.
• Marmaduke took everything that was given him, whilst chafing at the paucity of his allowance.
• The goddess of Fortune, with a broken nose and a paucity of fingers, dominated the brilliant assembly, from the height of her crimson throne.
• In the towns, however, stone or brick would assuredly be used, and to account for the paucity of ecclesiastical ruins three answers may be suggested.
• Unable by reason of the paucity of the family resources to buy luxuries for herself, she becomes a parasite and hanger-on of rich girls.
• Standing there in military array, fully armed, they made rather a formidable body of fighters despite their paucity of numbers.
• Classic in its clearness of outline and paucity of detail, mediaeval in sentiment, since the great Norman church dominates the whole, its appeal is at once wistful and severe.
• In yet another point this paucity of matter appears.
• The nature of its contents, which consists in the main of a prayer and a song, reasonably accounts for this paucity of illustration.
• There was an infinity of dialects, but a paucity of languages, in the Middle Ages.
• In these enterprises the paucity of results was due to the shortcomings of the agents to whom he entrusted their management.
• In spite of the beauty and fineness of these forests, there is still the Khorassan paucity of forms.
• I was much disappointed at the paucity of forms, for I did not get ten species, not met with before.
• It is impossible to acquit the commanders of the two ships engaged in this abortive relief expedition of a lack of determination, a paucity of courage, complete incompetence.
• He knew the way in spite of the darkness and the paucity of street lamps.
• The paucity of the narratives in the month of April, is quite noticeable.
• Myth and Legend The general principles considered above, while they explain the paucity of myth in China, explain also the abundance of legend there.
• The paucity of references to sins of the flesh, and to fraud, is to be accounted for by the actual rarity of such offences.

Similar words containing PAUC without suffix ity

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