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exiguity

[eg-zuh-gyoo-uh-tee, ek-suh-] / ˌɛg zəˈgju ə ti, ˌɛk sə- /










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The fairy of folk-lore in Shakespeare's day is nearly everything that the fairies of A Midsummer-Night's Dream are; we may possibly except their exiguity, their relations in love with mortals, and their hymeneal functions.

From The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' by Sidgwick, Compiled by Frank

Obviously, the gravitational tie, rendered powerless by exiguity of matter, was here replaced by some other form of mutual action, the nature of which can as yet be dealt with only by conjecture.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)

The exiguity of those legs is a most promising earnest of your future exploits, and demonstrate your agility, virility, salubrity, and amorosity; ha, ha, ha.

From The Politician Out-Witted by Moses, Montrose Jonas

He would rank with Wolfe; indeed, considering the exiguity of his means, his feat would surpass that of Wolfe.

From The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 by Lespérance, John

Therefore let it be recorded as still most odd that we should all have assented to such deficiency of landscape, such exiguity of sport.

From A Small Boy and Others by James, Henry




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