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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

- filthy receptacle of persons, crowded too with hordes of human beings, with scarcely space enough to contain the half of them—certainly not more than the quarter...
- 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...
- empires, nations, cities, towns, and villages. Martin Lings wrote: "There is scarcely a region in the empire of Islam which has not a Sufi for its Patron Saint...
- represents Sanskrit Asvaka in the sense of a cavalier, and this reappears scarcely modified in the ****akani or ****akeni of the historians of the expedition...
- 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...
- to the practical applications of this discussion, other sciences are "scarcely worth a ****-hing." Copies of the essay were privately printed by Franklin...
- island. However, until the post-Second World War era, the outer suburbs scarcely existed. Most of New Providence was uncultivated bush until Loyalists were...
- 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...
- early 1970s when Derby and Leeds were two of the top English teams and the scarcely concealed hostility between their respective managers, Brian Clough and...
- the greatest living thinker ceased to think. He had been left alone for scarcely two minutes, and when we came back we found him in his armchair, peacefully...