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exiguity

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










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One does not contrast the exiguity of a pint of nitric acid in an engraver's studio with the hundreds of gallons of water in the cisterns of his house.

From The Free Press by Belloc, Hilaire

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

The strong sonorous voice of the layman was in singular contrast with the exiguity of his thin, stunted frame. 

From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] by Huc, Evariste Regis

No lean-jowled, hungry-looking devotees, living in exiguity and droning in exinanition their prayers,––not by any means.

From The Book of Khalid by Rihani, Ameen Fares

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