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rarity
1. n. A measure of the scarcity of an object.
2. n. (chemistry, of a gas) Thinness; the property of having low density
3. n. A rare object.

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Do you know what value and rarity a such woman as yourself represents?  It might, but I think that if enough land is available and is continually made available, the ethnic disputes based over land will be drowned out with the subtraction of the rarity of land from the equation.  It is only due to the rarity of large steamer trunks, due in part to the demise of the steamship and the ascent of the airplane, no pun intended, that her crimes are not more frequent.

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