paucity

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

PAU'CITY, noun [Latin paucitas, from paucus, few.] 1. Fewness; smallness of number; as the paucity of schools. 2. Smallness of quantity; as paucity of blood.
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