diminutiveness
Example Sentences
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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
Historically they are the culmination of a development toward diminutiveness, for in their early days viols were larger than they are now.
From How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art by Krehbiel, Henry Edward
They both express the idea of smallness or diminutiveness.
From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
Sand-martins differ from their congeners in the diminutiveness of their size, and in their colour, which is what is usually called a mouse-colour.
From The Natural History of Selborne by White, Gilbert
My general diminutiveness of person has always been more than compensated, I think, by a corresponding magnitude of mind; but one is none the less sensitive to wayside ribaldry.
From Aliens by McFee, William
