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escharseté (s.xii3/4)
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escharseté (s.xii3/4)

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escharceté;  escarceté,  escarcetee;  escarsetee  (escaceté  Rot Parl1 iv 123)  
  FEW:  *excarpsus 3,270b Gdf:  escharseté 3,376a GdfC: ∅ TL: escharseté 3,868 DEAF: ∅ DMF:  escharseté  TLF: ∅ OED:  scarcity n.  MED:  scarsete n.  DMLBS: ∅

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1scarcity: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Escharsetez i ad de l’ewe e de bestes plentez  Rom Chev ANTS 7033
( MS: s.xiii )  frugalitas: escarceté  TLL ii 118
( 1402 )  la grande escarsetee qy ad au present [...] des mayles & ferlynges d’argent  Stats ii 136 x
♦insufficiency: 
( 1323-25 )  de l’escharseté de seen qe vous me surmettez, n’ai poair ne matire de le desdire  St Sard 154
2meanness, stinginess: 
( 1214; MS: 1214-16 )  lu leit donot [...] Largement, sanz escharseté  S Greg 1644
3(narrow) compass, confines: 
( MS: s.xivm )  Les douze prophetes (=of the Old Testament) constreintz en les escarsetees de une volume  S Jer 3rb

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scarseté 
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