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Littleness
noun
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Noun
- 1 The property of being little, smallness. countable, uncountable
"For although the Queen had ordered a little Equipage of all things neceſſary while I was in her Service, yet my Ideas were wholly taken up with what I ſaw on every ſide of me, and winked at my own Littleneſs as People do at their own Faults."
- 2 lack of generosity in trifling matters wordnet
- 3 Smallness of spirit; pettiness. countable, uncountable
"Court, city, church are all shops of smallwares; All having blown to sparks their noble fire, And drawn their sound gold ingot into wire; All trying by a love of littleness To make abridgments, and to draw to less Even that nothing which at first we were;"
- 4 the property of having relatively little strength or vigor wordnet
- 5 the property of having a relatively small size wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English litelnes, litelnesse, from Old English lytelnysse, lȳtelnes, equivalent to little + -ness.
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