dearth

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Dearness; the quality of being rare or costly
Scarcity; a lack or short supply
A period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine

I promise you, the effects he writes of succeed unhappily: as of unnaturalness between the child and the parent; death, dearth, dissolutions of ancient amities; divisions in state, menaces and maledictions against king and nobles; needless diffidences, banishment of friends, dissipation of cohorts, nuptial breaches, and I know not what.

scarcity, as of something customary, essential ,or desirable
an insufficient quantity or number
{n} a great scarcity, want, barrenness
an insufficient quantity or number an acute insufficiency
{i} lack, scarceness of something; scarceness of food; famine, severe food shortage
If there is a dearth of something, there is not enough of it. the dearth of good fiction by English authors. = lack. a lack of something dearth of (DEAR (11-21 centuries))
Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine
an acute insufficiency
dearths
plural of dearth
dearth
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