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Definition of Minutiae
1. minutia [n] - See also: minutia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Minutiae
Literary usage of Minutiae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Slavery in South Carolina and the Ex-slaves, Or, The Port Royal Mission by Austa Malinda French (1862)
"To drive on in all the minutiae of house labor—to compel care, in unwilling,
grudging, revengeful hearts,—and revenge in some, has rankled desperately, ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"... further into tie minutiae of the system ; enough has been said to show tlic
principle on which it is formed. It is obvious tint litre would be no ..."
3. The Theory of Toleration Under the Later Stuarts by Alexander Adam Seaton (1911)
"... and because absorption in a new interest is calculated to produce an indifference
to theological minutiae,which, though it may not be an exalted reason, ..."
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