Littleness

Synonyms for "littleness" (132 found)

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Hindi

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  • अल्पता noun (state of being little)

Latin

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  • parvitās noun (state of being little)

Ottoman Turkish

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  • قلت noun (state of being little)

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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.

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His littleness didn't bother him, except when he needed to get something off the top shelf.

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1757, Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, Part III, Sect. 21, pp. 161-162, Littleness, merely as such, has nothing contrary to the idea of beauty. The humming bird both in shape and colouring yields to none of the winged species, of which it is the least; and perhaps his beauty is enhanced by his smallness.

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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;

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