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Definition of Tittle
1. Noun. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
Generic synonyms: Small Indefinite Amount, Small Indefinite Quantity
Derivative terms: Shred
Definition of Tittle
1. n. A particle; a minute part; a jot; an iota.
Definition of Tittle
1. Noun. A small, insignificant amount (of something); a vanishing scintilla; a measly crumb; a minute speck. ¹
2. Noun. Any small dot, stroke, or diacritical mark, especially if part of a letter, or if a letter-like abbreviation; in particular, the dots over the Latin letters (term i) and (term j). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tittle
1. a very small mark in writing or printing [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tittle
Literary usage of Tittle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe (1886)
"And this one tittle is an uncompounded, simple, and pure monad, which derives
... That one indivisible tittle is, he says, one tittle of the (letter) iota, ..."
2. The Cumulative Book Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1911)
"Colonial holidays; being a collection of contemporary accounts of holiday
celebrations in colonial times; 11. and Illuminated by Walter tittle. ..."
3. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"... is a variant of tidy/ and "vate" is an affix, from the Latin r ado (to go),
meaning " to go and do something. tittle Tattle. ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... of which unfortunately 17 had already received numbers from Kennicott. De Rossi
every jot and tittle of the text was almost absolutely fixed and sacred. ..."
5. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Ernest Cushing Richardson, Bernhard Pick, Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Allan Menzies (1886)
"As an illustration, however, consider, he says, as a greatest image of the perfect
man, the one jot — that one tittle. And this one tittle is an ..."
6. The Works of Charles Paul de Kock, with a General Introduction by Jules Claretie by Paul de Kock (1904)
"One might make an enormous quantity on the habits, the ridiculous customs, the
prejudices, the gossip and tittle-tattle and manners of the inhabitants of a ..."
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