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Scantly   Listen
adverb
Scantly  adv.  
1.
In a scant manner; not fully or sufficiently; narrowly; penuriously.
2.
Scarcely; hardly; barely. "Scantly they durst their feeble eyes dispread Upon that town." "We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn, And there is scantly time for half the work."





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"Scantly" Quotes from Famous Books



... should, by law, be kept for three continuous days if there was any need; [Footnote: 12 Richard II, chap. x.] but, as a matter of fact, sessions seldom lasted more than a day, and a contemporary complains that "many doe scantly afford them three whole hours, besides the time which is spent in calling of the county and giving of the charge." [Footnote: Lambarde, Eirenarcha, book IV., ...
— European Background Of American History - (Vol. I of The American Nation: A History) • Edward Potts Cheyney


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