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

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

She was seated on a sofa at the far end of the room when Seymour Michael was shown in, and the first thing that struck her was his diminutiveness.

From From One Generation to Another by Merriman, Henry Seton

If petty larceny be his offence, I exhort you, do not confound meanness of crime with diminutiveness of stature.

From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Lamb, Charles

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 Frost, Sarah Annie