diminutiveness
Example Sentences
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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 Lamb, Charles
Passers-by frequently glanced at it and thought it a nice little house whose amusing diminutiveness was a sort of attraction.
From The Head of the House of Coombe by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
My general diminutiveness of person has always been more than compensated, I think, by a corresponding magnitude of mind; but one is none the less sensitive to wayside ribaldry.
From Aliens by McFee, William
She was seated on a sofa at the far end of the room when Seymour Michael was shown in, and the first thing that struck her was his diminutiveness.
From From One Generation to Another by Merriman, Henry Seton
