Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Sparingness.Cotgrave.
  • noun Sparseness; paucity.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Sparingless.

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  • noun obsolete sparingness

Etymologies

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Latin parcitas, from parcus sparing.

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  • Oxford English Dictionary defines parcity to be 1. sparingness, frugality; 2. inadequacy; 3. smallness.

    September 5, 2011

  • This town is full of very average golfers.

    September 5, 2011