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noun
1.
an inadequate supply; scarcity; lack: There is a dearth of good engineers.
2.
scarcity and dearness of food; famine.
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- This dearth of valid arguments is why those in the "immigration enforcement" camp are often accused of xenophobia.
- Despite the apparent dearth of titles, hitting the target audience has not always proven to be easy in this niche market.
- The problem isn't a dearth of fish, it's an abundance of people.
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Word Origin & History
dearth
mid-13c., derthe "scarcity," abstract n. formed from root of O.E. deore "precious, costly" (see dear). Originally used of famines, when food was costly because scarce.
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Dearth definition
a scarcity of provisions (1 Kings 17). There were frequent dearths in Palestine. In the days of Abram there was a "famine in the land" (Gen. 12:10), so also in the days of Jacob (47:4, 13). We read also of dearths in the time of the judges (Ruth 1:1), and of the kings (2 Sam. 21:1; 1 Kings 18:2; 2 Kings 4:38; 8:1). In New Testament times there was an extensive famine in Palestine (Acts 11:28) in the fourth year of the reign of the emperor Claudius (A.D. 44 and 45).
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