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Definition of Diminutively
1. adv. In a diminutive manner.
Definition of Diminutively
1. Adverb. In a diminutive manner. ¹
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Definition of Diminutively
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diminutively
Literary usage of Diminutively
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"Very low and woody ; diminutively shrubby. Sulcate. Grooved or furrowed.
Superior (ovary). Free from the calyx. ..."
2. Journal of Proceedings and Addresses of the ... Annual Meeting Held at by National Educational Association (U.S.) (1903)
"In my own college there is an old rule, dating back to the very beginning of its
life that any student who "speaks diminutively of work" shall do the work ..."
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