diminutiveness
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Proust had to outgrow the habits of diminutiveness, without sacrificing a love of nuance and detail, to become himself.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 3, 2015
All affectations in writing should be avoided, such as sloping one's hand to the left, the use of flourishes, undue size in the characters, or a diminutiveness of the same to try eyesight and patience.
From Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life. by Sarah Annie Frost
But he was fierce-looking for all his diminutiveness.
From Insect Stories by Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman) Kellogg
They both express the idea of smallness or diminutiveness.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
Accordingly, I stayed in his bedroom, where I had found him writing, and he went into his sitting-room, of which, from the diminutiveness of his domicile, I commanded a full view, sit where I would.
From Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories by Ouida
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