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Meagreness

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.

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meagreness

alt. (context British English) The state of being meagre. n. (context British English) The state of being meagre.

WordNet
meagreness

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]

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.