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The quality of being meager
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meagreness
Word definitions for meagreness in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Meagerness \Mea"ger*ness\, Meagreness \Mea"gre*ness\, n. The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness. Syn: meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot [syn: meagerness , poorness , scantiness , scantness , exiguity ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. (context British English) The state of being meagre. n. (context British English) The state of being meagre.
Usage examples of meagreness.
Claudius himself who is writing this book, and no secretary of his, and not one of those official annalists, either, to whom public men are in the habit of communicating their recollections, in the hope that elegant writing will eke out meagreness of subject-matter and flattery soften vices.
Claudius himself who is writing this book, and no secretary of his, and not one of those official annalists, either, to whom public men are in the habit of communicating their recollections, in the hope that elegant writing will eke out meagreness of subject-matter and flattery soften vices.