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
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 Charles Lamb
"I have no doubt," said De Chauxville, "that mademoiselle's hands are firm, despite their diminutiveness."
From The Sowers by Henry Seton Merriman
She had dark, flashing eyes, pearly teeth, full ruby lips and feet and hands that were of fairylike diminutiveness, as well as miracles of grace and dainty shapeliness.
From Monte-Cristo's Daughter by Edmund Flagg
Out of her diminutiveness, out of her leanness, out of her extraordinary litheness, little Eve Edgarton stared up speculatively at Barton's great hulking helplessness.
From Little Eve Edgarton by Raymond Moreau Crosby
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