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Definition of Scanting
1. scant [v] - See also: scant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scanting
Literary usage of Scanting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to Bantam and the Maluco Islands: Being by Henry Middleton, Bolton Corney (1855)
"The phrase, misinterpreted by Todd, has a technical sense — as in this example : "
the wind scanting with us, and larging with them, we were forced to ..."
2. La Calprenede's Romances and the Restoration Drama by Herbert Wynford Hill (1910)
"... criticizes Davenant for scanting his images: The Laws of an Heroick Poem did
not dispence with those of the other, but rais'd them to a greater height: ..."
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