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Diminishment

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of diminishing; reducing in size, quantity, or quality. countable, uncountable

    "They also shewed forth the letters which hee had sent to the Duke of Irelande, to leuie an armie vnto theyr destruction. Likewise the letters which the Frenche king had written to him conteyning a safe conducte for him to come into Fraunce, there to confyrme things to the diminishment of his honor, to the decay of his power, and losse of his fame."

Etymology

From diminish + -ment.

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