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Definition of Exiguousness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exiguousness
Literary usage of Exiguousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention by Religious Education Association (1905)
"... courtesy, politeness, the ideal of the gentleman in relation to society and
to women, social form, magnanimity, noblesse oblige versus exiguousness and ..."
2. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1917)
"... any) has been levelled mainly at the exiguousness of the letterpress, which
certainly is inadequate to convey any detailed account of the appearance or ..."
3. Leaves from an Actor's Note-book: With Reminiscences and Chit-chat of the by George Vandenhoff (1860)
"... presented the same exiguousness of length, and displayed the tops of a pair
of very seedy and travel-worn high-lows,—a fuzzy head of hair, ..."
4. Co-operative Credit for the United States by Henry William Wolff (1917)
"... condemned to a scale of earning which is much below their abilities, to a
measure of production the exiguousness of which leaves the world the poorer. ..."
5. A Dictionary of the Portuguese and English Languages, in Two Parts ...by Antonio Vieyra, J.-P. Aillaud by Antonio Vieyra, J.-P. Aillaud (1813)
"exiguousness, s. pequenez. Exile, s. desterro- Item, a pes- soa desterrada.
Exile, adj. pouco, pequeño. To exile, va desterrar. Exiled, adj. desterrado. ..."
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