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Definition of Dearths
1. dearth [n] - See also: dearth
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dearths
Literary usage of Dearths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1823)
"... Societies—New Tariff—New Loan—Scheme for preventing the Evils of occasional
dearths—Siberia—Russian Pretensions on the North-Western Coast of America. ..."
2. The Famine Plot Persuasion in Eighteenth-Century France by Steven L. Kaplan (1982)
"The dearths of 1747 and 1751-1752 Following the crisis of 1738-1741, there ensued
almost a quarter century ..."
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