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Definition of Diminutions
1. diminution [n] - See also: diminution
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diminutions
Literary usage of Diminutions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Handbook of Colloid-chemistry: The Recognition of Colloids, the Theory of by Carl Wilhelm Wolfgang Ostwald, Wolfgang Ostwald, Emil Hatschek (1919)
"Discontinuous Diminutions in Surface.—When one discusses discontinuous diminutions
in surface one must bear in mind that we deal not with diminutions in the ..."
2. Analysis of M. Ortolan's Institutes of Justinian: Including the History and by Thomas Lambert Mears, Joseph-Louis-Elzéar Ortolan (1876)
"(§ xviii) Diminutions or accretions after the dies cedit of a legacy of a flock (see
part ii, par. 143, 2) are the loss or gain of ihe legatee, ..."
3. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor by Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1852)
"OF THE Diminutions OF VOLUNTARY ACTIONS: AND FIRST OF IGNORANCE, AND ITS INFLUENCE
INTO THE MORALITY OF HUMAN ACTIONS. ..."
4. English, Past and Present by Richard Chenevix Trench (1870)
"LECTURE V. Diminutions OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. I OBSERVED in my latest lecture
but one that it is ... Of the diminutions it is now our business to speak. ..."
5. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1789)
"... the diminutions of bulk were very nearly the fame, lefs than when the original
inflammable air was ufed, ..."
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