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Definition of Scarcest
1. scarce [adj] - See also: scarce
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scarcest
Literary usage of Scarcest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"'A Catalogue of Books, lately imported from France, containing the scarcest and
most elegant editions of the Greek and Roman Classics. ..."
2. The Annals of Roger de Hoveden: Comprising the History of England and of by Roger, Roger of Hoveden, Henry Thomas Riley (1853)
"W. 182» "Oue of the most interesting, and hitherto the scarcest of Mr. Sweet's
... scarcest ..."
3. An Uncensored Diary from the Central Empires by Ernesta Drinker Bullitt (1917)
"Fat is the scarcest article of food and tells immediately upon the health of the
children. Helping to clothe the people is another branch of the Comile de ..."
4. Catalogue of the Library: Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Maps and Prints by Gerald Ephraim Hart (1890)
"One of the scarcest English Autographs. 2^92 ORLEANS, Charles, Duke of, Father
of Louis XII, taken prisoner at Agincourt, one of the best poets of his time. ..."
5. The London Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1845)
"... the fullest of which amounts to 600 species; the lowest to 2 or 300; but the
species wanting in these lower sets are not generally the scarcest kinds, ..."
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