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Meanings of meagreness in English

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The quality of being meager.

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      Usage of meagreness in English
      1
      Then we cripple their efficiency through the meagreness of their pay.
      The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
      2
      That he looked miserable-thathe was thin to meagreness, I had not seen.
      Confession; Or, The Blind Heart. A Domestic Story
      3
      And somehow the simple melody helped to conceal the meagreness of the childish words.
      A Prisoner in Fairyland (The Book That 'Uncle Paul' Wrote)
      4
      Then he had apologised for the meagreness of the meal.
      Where the Trail Divides
      5
      They were present to me now, but coolly and sanely in all their meagreness.
      Greenmantle
      6
      How to explain the meagreness of the roles I'd had?
      Twenty fragments of a ravenous youth
      7
      The room within was almost horrible in its meagreness.
      A People's Man
      8
      The meagreness or negativeness of their content has been in an inverse ratio to their power.
      The Republic
      9
      She had been astonished at the meagreness of the supplies she found, but made no comment.
      Mrs. Red Pepper
      10
      I have really seen whole houses, little more than shells, reduced to meagreness by the pocket-knife.
      Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the ...
      11
      And singularly enough, it seems, with all its meagreness, to pass easily into an ostentatious display.
      The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 / A Magaz...
      12
      I was alone, disrobed, hair flying, studying my shoulders, deploring their meagreness- atruepicture of despair!
      Parisian Points of View
      13
      The Die-Hards are so tiny, so poor, so pitifully handicapped, and yet so bold in their meagreness.
      Huntingtower
      14
      Its plainness is never meagreness, but unity.
      The Principles of Success in Literature
      15
      An equally potent cause for his resignation was the meagreness of his salary of $3500.
      Thomas Jefferson, a Character Sketch
      16
      Of the meagreness of a child's life?
      The Sea-Wolf
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      Spanish
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      Meagreness through the time