Rere vs Scarce - What's the difference?
rere | scarce |
(all meanings).
(Irish, legal, specifically) back portion or area behind (a building, etc.)
Uncommon, rare; difficult to find; insufficient to meet a demand.
* (John Locke)
* , chapter=3
, title= Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); used with of .
* (John Milton)
Scarcely, only just.
* Milton
* 1854 , (Edgar Allen Poe), (The Raven):
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4:
* 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, p. 122:
As a noun rere
is (all meanings).As an adjective scarce is
uncommon, rare; difficult to find; insufficient to meet a demand.As an adverb scarce is
scarcely, only just.rere
English
Noun
(en noun)Quotations
* 1678 "In the rere' of them fall others of the city trumpets; after them two gentlemen bearing the banners of the city and the Lord Mayor; twelve gentlemen ushers appointed as aforesaid follow them, and after them the court of assistants put a period to that division. In the '''rere of them falls the serjeant trumpet, after him sixteen other of the king's trumpets and kettle-drums; ..." ''The Triumphs of London'' (Reprinted 1869 in''Some account of the Worshipful company of grocers of the city of London, by John Benjamin Heath) * 1784 "So out we sallied, the corporal lending his master his arm, and bringing up the rere , to the abby of Saint Grmain [sic]"
Tristram Shandy Vol.3, p.44, Lawrence Sterne * 1855 "It begins by setting out all the tenants' names; the frontage, the depth, and the reres of the several plots." Archdeacon Hewitson's Endowment For A Protestant School At Swords, Endowed Schools, Ireland, Commission, minutes of evidence, Vol. II in
Parliamentary papers, Volume 22, Part 3, p.33* 1922 "He trod the worn steps, pushed the swingdoor and entered softly by the rere ."
Ulysses , Chapter VJames Joyce * 1986 "the arcade at the rere of the General Post Office"
Dublin Metropolitan Streets Commission Act, 1986: First Schedule* 1995 "the unnamed laneway to the rere of Nos. 1-8 Merview"
S.I. No. 248/1995 — Urban Renewal Act, 1986 (Designated Areas) (Cobh) Order, 1995; Schedule, Part II, Harbour Row Area* 1996 "First Floor/Rere Room: Doors, door cases, chimney piece, decorative plaster ceiling."
Written Answers. - Departmental BuildingsDáil Éireann - Volume 463 - 26 March, 1996 * 2009 "permission sought for proposed (1) garage conversion and first floor extension to side, (2) single storey extension to rere , and (3) alterations to front single-storey element and wider vehicular entrance at [address]"
Malahide planning noticesFingal Independent , 18 November 2009
Derived terms
* (l)See also
* reredorterReferences
*rereat Wordnik
Anagrams
* ----scarce
English
(wikipedia scarce)Adjective
(er)- You tell him silver is scarcer now in England, and therefore risen one fifth in value.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}
- A region scarce of prey.
Adverb
(-)- With a scarce well-lighted flame.
- And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure that I heard you [...].
- Yet had I scarce set foot in the passage when I stopped, remembering how once already this same evening I had played the coward, and run home scared with my own fears.
- Upon the barred and slitted wall the splotched shadow of the heaven tree shuddered and pulsed monstrously in scarce any wind.