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noun 
  1. (context, obsolete, rare) dearness, Dearness; the quality of being rare or costly.
  2. A period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine.
    • 1608, William Shakespeare, King Lear:
    • :I promise you, the effects he writes of succeed unhappily: as of unnaturalness between the child and the parent; death, , 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.
      1. (context, by extension) scarcity, Scarcity; a lack or short supply.
Translations: 
  • French: pénurie
    • German: Fehlen , Mangel
    • German: Hungersnot
    Etymology: Middle English deríe, probably from Old English
    • dieríu; corresponding to dear + -th.



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