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adjectivescace (comparative scacer, superlative scacest)
comparative scacer · superlative scacest
- alternativedialectalobsoleteAlternative form of scarce.
adverbscace (not comparable)
- alternativedialectalnot comparableobsoleteAlternative form of scarce.
Nowe ſcace wyll any man dye foꝛ the righteous: Yet peraduenture foꝛ the good ſome men durſt dye.
1568, The Holie Bible: conteynyng the Olde Testament and the Newe […] (the Bishops' Bible), London: R. Iugge, Printer to the Queene, Romanes v:7, folio xcij, recto1 more example
and when we had ſayled ſlowly many dayes / and ſcace were come over agaynſt Gnydon (be cauſe the wynde with ſtode vs) we ſaled harde by the coſtes off Candy / over agaynſte Salmo.
1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, The Actes off the Apostles xxvij:[7], folio cxcxv, verso
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