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Definition of Scarcely

Scarcely
Scarce Scarce, Scarcely Scarce"ly, adv. 1. With difficulty; hardly; scantly; barely; but just. With a scarce well-lighted flame. --Milton. The eldest scarcely five year was of age. --Chaucer. Slowly she sails, and scarcely stems the tides. --Dryden. He had scarcely finished, when the laborer arrived who had been sent for my ransom. --W. Irving. 2. Frugally; penuriously. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Meaning of Scarcely from wikipedia

- to the practical applications of this discussion, other sciences are "scarcely worth a ****-HING." Copies of the essay were privately printed by Franklin...
- paused before a House that seemed A Swelling of the Ground — The Roof was scarcely visible — The Cornice — in the GroundSince then — 'tis Centuries — and...
- ISBN 978-0-8109-0626-6. The Roman theater survives virtually intact... scarcely another surviving theater gives a better impression of just how the Roman...
- filthy receptacle of persons, crowded too with hordes of human beings, with scarcely space enough to contain the half of them—certainly not more that the quarter...
- island. However, until the post-Second World War era, the outer suburbs scarcely existed. Most of New Providence was uncultivated bush until Loyalists were...
- Union; the primary aim was to recapture the territory lost to the Soviets scarcely one year before. Finnish forces occupied East Karelia from 1941 to 1944...
- French occupation of the region licenses for fur trading had been issued scarcely and only to select groups of traders, whereas the British, in an effort...
- Iberia and the middle Pyrenees the power of the Muslims in the south was scarcely felt. It was here that the foundations of the Christian kingdoms of Asturias...
- Volkogonov said, while renouncing Leninist ideology, that "there can scarcely have been another man in history who managed so profoundly to change so...
- wishing to learn a topic in depth. However, libraries have found that it is scarcely used, and reviewers have recommended that it be dropped from the encyclopaedia...